Parish is a tiny village located in the state of New York. With a population of 445 people and just one neighborhood, Parish is the 905th largest community in New York. Parish has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.
Parish is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Parish is a village of professionals, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Parish who work in healthcare suport services (10.15%), office and administrative support (9.40%), and art, media, and design (9.40%).
Of important note, Parish is also a village of artists. Parish has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Parish’s character.
A relatively large number of people in Parish telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 15.33% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
Residents will find that the village 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, Parish is worth considering.
One downside of living in Parish, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 35.48 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small village, Parish does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Parish with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.08% of adults in Parish have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Parish in 2022 was $37,339, which is middle income relative to New York, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $149,356 for a family of four. However, Parish contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Parish is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Parish home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Parish residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Parish include German, Irish, English, Italian, and French.
The most common language spoken in Parish is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Significantly, 7.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.7% 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 Parish are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 33.8% 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 32.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.9%), and 16.2% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
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 96.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Parish, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.8%), and residents who report English roots (14.9%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (9.4%), along with some French ancestry residents (6.1%), among others.
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 (41.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (76.8%) 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 (13.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.