Warrensburg is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 3,045 people and just one neighborhood, Warrensburg is the 471st largest community in New York. Much of the housing stock in Warrensburg was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Warrensburg is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Warrensburg is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Warrensburg who work in sales jobs (15.98%), healthcare suport services (12.02%), and office and administrative support (9.29%).
Also of interest is that Warrensburg 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 Warrensburg telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 10.27% 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.
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!) Warrensburg 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. Warrensburg has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Warrensburg than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Warrensburg may be for you.
Being a small town, Warrensburg does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Warrensburg, just 12.63% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Warrensburg in 2022 was $31,962, 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 $127,848 for a family of four. However, Warrensburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Warrensburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Warrensburg residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Warrensburg include English, Irish, German, Italian, and French.
The most common language spoken in Warrensburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Greek.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Finnish and English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Finnish ancestry and 20.8% have English ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.9% 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 Warrensburg are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.8% 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, 28.9% 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 executive, management, and professional occupations, with 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.3%), and 19.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.8% of households. Some people also speak Italian (8.5%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Warrensburg, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (20.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.4%), and residents who report German roots (11.8%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (5.8%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.8%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (80.0%) 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 (9.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.