Middleport is a very small village located in the state of New York. With a population of 1,706 people and just one neighborhood, Middleport is the 638th largest community in New York. Middleport has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.
Unlike some villages, Middleport isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Middleport are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Middleport is a village of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Middleport who work in office and administrative support (15.38%), sales jobs (12.09%), and food service (6.81%).
Being a small village, Middleport does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Middleport are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 23.26% of adults in Middleport having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Middleport in 2022 was $27,377, which is low income relative to New York, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $109,508 for a family of four. However, Middleport contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Middleport home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Middleport residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Middleport include German, English, Irish, Polish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Middleport is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Tagalog.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
If you find historic homes and neighborhoods attractive, you love the details, the history, and the charm, then you are sure to be interested in this neighborhood. With 59.3% of the residential real estate in the neighborhood built no later than 1939, and some built considerably earlier, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of historic residences than 96.3% of all neighborhoods in America. In this regard, this neighborhood truly stands out as special.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Polish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 11.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Polish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 9.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Middleport are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 23.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 26.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 25.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (25.3%), and 20.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.7% of households. Some people also speak Polish (9.3%).
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 Middleport, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (32.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (13.2%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (11.1%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (8.8%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.7%) 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 (11.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.