North Lawrence is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 2,153 people and just one neighborhood, North Lawrence is the 567th largest community in New York.
North Lawrence is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, North Lawrence is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in North Lawrence who work in law enforcement and fire fighting (11.01%), office and administrative support (8.93%), and sales jobs (7.34%).
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!) North Lawrence 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. North Lawrence has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in North Lawrence than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, North Lawrence may be for you.
Being a small town, North Lawrence does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in North Lawrence who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.59% of the adults in North Lawrence have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in North Lawrence in 2022 was $28,972, 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 $115,888 for a family of four. However, North Lawrence contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call North Lawrence home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of North Lawrence residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in North Lawrence include French, Irish, French Canadian, English, and German.
The most common language spoken in North Lawrence is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian 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.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 92.8% of the neighborhoods in 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, 8.2% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 14.3% have French ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.2% 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 North Lawrence are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.5% 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, 32.8% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 27.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.7%), and 16.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 96.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
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 North Lawrence, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (14.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.9%), and residents who report French Canadian roots (8.2%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.9%), along with some German ancestry residents (6.8%), 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 (46.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.6%) 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 (7.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.