Mooers is a tiny town located in the state of New York. With a population of 451 people and just one neighborhood, Mooers is the 904th largest community in New York.
When you are in Mooers, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 44.58% of Mooers’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Mooers is a town of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mooers who work in sales jobs (15.83%), food service (12.50%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (8.75%).
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!) Mooers 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. Mooers has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Mooers than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Mooers may be for you.
As is often the case in a small town, Mooers doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Mooers who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.58% of the adults in Mooers have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mooers in 2022 was $20,294, which is low income relative to New York and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $81,176 for a family of four. However, Mooers contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Mooers home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mooers residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Mooers include German, French, Welsh, Irish, and French Canadian.
The most common language spoken in Mooers is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
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.
Of particular note, 6.1% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 37 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.5% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French Canadian and French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 11.3% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 17.6% have French ancestry.
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 Mooers are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.6% 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, 38.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 23.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.1%), and 16.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.7% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.3%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Mooers, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (17.6%). There are also a number of people of French Canadian ancestry (11.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.6%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (4.9%), along with some German ancestry residents (4.1%), 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 (49.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.2%) 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 (15.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.