Silver Creek is a very small village located in the state of New York. With a population of 2,583 people and just one neighborhood, Silver Creek is the 514th largest community in New York. Silver Creek has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.
Silver Creek is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Silver Creek is a village of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Silver Creek who work in office and administrative support (19.87%), food service (7.44%), and healthcare (7.36%).
Also of interest is that Silver Creek has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in Silver Creek telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 13.91% 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.
Being a small village, Silver Creek does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Silver Creek is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 28.55% of adults 25 and older in the village have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Silver Creek in 2022 was $31,615, 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 $126,460 for a family of four. However, Silver Creek contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Silver Creek is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Silver Creek home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Silver Creek residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Silver Creek include German, Irish, Italian, Polish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Silver Creek is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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 Silver Creek, 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 French and Polish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 10.5% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 12.0% have Polish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 19.1% 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 99.6% 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 Silver Creek are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.4% of U.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, 33.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 22.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.5%), and 21.0% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% of households. Some people also speak Italian (19.1%).
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 Silver Creek, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.8%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (18.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (15.9%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (12.0%), along with some French ancestry residents (10.5%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (70.6%) 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 (12.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.