Irving is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 2,107 people and just one neighborhood, Irving is the 574th largest community in New York.
Irving is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Irving is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Irving who work in sales jobs (12.02%), management occupations (11.86%), and office and administrative support (7.55%).
Of important note, Irving is also a town of artists. Irving has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Irving’s character.
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Irving has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Irving has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Irving than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Irving may be for you.
Irving is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of Irving are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 21.24% of adults in Irving having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Irving in 2022 was $21,695, which is low income relative to New York and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $86,780 for a family of four. However, Irving contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Irving also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.08% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Irving is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Irving home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Irving residents report their race to be Native American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Irving include German, Irish, Jamaican, Italian, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Irving is English. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Polish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Irving, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 99.1% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American and Jamaican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 60.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 3.7% have Jamaican ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 12.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Irving are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 38.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 88.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 33.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 28.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (26.0%), and 20.3% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 79.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Polish.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Irving, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (60.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.4%), and residents who report Mexican roots (6.2%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (3.9%), along with some Jamaican ancestry residents (3.7%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (79.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (18.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.