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New Baltimore, NY

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Overview


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. New Baltimore has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.

Occupations and Workforce

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.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 24.06% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, New Baltimore is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making New Baltimore a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, New Baltimore has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local 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.

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, New Baltimore is worth considering.

One downside of living in New Baltimore is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In New Baltimore, the average commute to work is 31.80 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small town, New Baltimore doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The population of New Baltimore is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 21.84% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 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.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

People

In a nation where 1 out of every 4 children lives in poverty, the neighborhood stands out as being ranked among the lowest 0.0% of neighborhoods affected by this global issue.

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.

Diversity

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.

The Neighbors

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.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.0%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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.

Getting to Work

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 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.


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