Ruby is a tiny town located in the state of New York. With a population of 918 people and just one neighborhood, Ruby is the 776th largest community in New York.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Ruby is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Ruby is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ruby who work in sales jobs (15.36%), office and administrative support (12.95%), and teaching (10.09%).
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Ruby has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Ruby a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Ruby spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 18.66 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.
Ruby is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of adults in Ruby with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.37% of adults in Ruby have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Ruby in 2022 was $46,673, which is upper middle income relative to New York and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $186,692 for a family of four. However, Ruby contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Ruby is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ruby home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ruby residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Ruby also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.95% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Ruby include German, Irish, Polish, Italian, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Ruby is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Urdu.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Ruby, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch and Greek ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 3.4% have Greek ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Urdu, which is the national language of Pakistan, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.9% 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 Ruby are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 73.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.0% 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 64.1% of America's neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 43.0% 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 23.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.0%), and 14.4% 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 92.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish 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 Ruby, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (20.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (20.5%), and residents who report Italian roots (11.1%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (9.5%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (8.9%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (50.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (79.4%) 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 (6.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.