South Blooming Grove is a very small village located in the state of New York. With a population of 3,864 people and just one neighborhood, South Blooming Grove is the 386th largest community in New York.
Housing costs in South Blooming Grove are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in New York.
South Blooming Grove is a decidedly white-collar village, with fully 86.40% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, South Blooming Grove is a village of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in South Blooming Grove who work in management occupations (15.85%), office and administrative support (14.48%), and teaching (14.08%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 15.34% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
In South Blooming Grove, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 37.63 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. One bright side is that local public transit is widely used, so it may be an option to avoid the headache of driving in the heavy traffic by leaving the car at home and taking transit.
Even though South Blooming Grove is a smaller village, it has many people who hop on public transportation – mostly the bus for their daily commute to work. Typically, these people are commuting to good jobs in the surrounding cities.
The percentage of people in South Blooming Grove who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 28.77% of adults in South Blooming Grove have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in South Blooming Grove in 2022 was $26,721, 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 $106,884 for a family of four. However, South Blooming Grove contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. South Blooming Grove also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 42.59% of its population below the federal poverty line.
South Blooming Grove is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call South Blooming Grove home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of South Blooming Grove residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in South Blooming Grove include Hungarian, Italian, Romanian, German, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in South Blooming Grove is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
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 South Blooming Grove, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 19.7% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.5% of all neighborhoods in America.
Of note, 59.2% of the children in this area live in poverty; an extraordinarily high percentage compared to other neighborhoods in the nation. In a nation where approximately one in four children grows up in poverty, this neighborhood stands out for the depth of the problem manifested here.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Hungarian and Romanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 31.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian ancestry and 6.7% have Romanian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 43.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. This is a higher percentage than 99.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 South Blooming Grove are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 51.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 59.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 96.7% 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, 40.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 23.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.2%), and 16.5% in manufacturing and laborer 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 48.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Spanish.
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 South Blooming Grove, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Hungarian (31.1%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (11.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.5%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (7.2%), along with some Romanian ancestry residents (6.7%), 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 (24.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America. However, there is also a significant group of residents (19.7%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (71.0%) 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 (8.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.