New Baltimore is a tiny town located in the state of New York. With a population of 546 people and just one neighborhood, New Baltimore is the 867th largest community in New York. Much of the housing stock in New Baltimore was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
New Baltimore is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 87.17% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, New Baltimore is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in New Baltimore who work in office and administrative support (20.32%), management occupations (18.72%), and art, media, and design (13.37%).
Of important note, New Baltimore is also a town of artists. New Baltimore has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape New Baltimore’s character.
Also of interest is that New Baltimore has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 24.06% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
New Baltimore is a good choice for families with children because of several factors. Many other families with children live here, making it a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic success. Many people own their own single-family homes, providing areas for children to play and stability in the community. Finally, New Baltimore’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.
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!) New Baltimore 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. New Baltimore has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in New Baltimore than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, New Baltimore may be for you.
One downside of living in New Baltimore, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.80 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small town, New Baltimore doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of New Baltimore are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 35.54% of adults in New Baltimore have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in New Baltimore in 2022 was $32,753, which is lower middle income relative to New York, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $131,012 for a family of four. However, New Baltimore contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
New Baltimore is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call New Baltimore home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Baltimore residents report their race to be White. New Baltimore also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 22.32% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in New Baltimore include Swedish, German, Eastern European, Romanian, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in New Baltimore is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and West Germanic 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 note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.
In addition, if you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 12.0% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of New York. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools. In addition to being an excellent choice for families with school-aged children, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for active retirees.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Croatian and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Croatian ancestry and 4.3% have Dutch ancestry.
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 New Baltimore are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 63.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 100.0% of America'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, 35.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 24.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.1%), and 16.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.0%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in New Baltimore, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.0%), and residents who report French roots (7.3%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.0%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (5.3%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.0% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (77.2%) 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 (9.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.