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Wingdale, NY

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Overview


Wingdale is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 1,051 people and just one neighborhood, Wingdale is the 751st largest community in New York.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Wingdale, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 43.64% of Wingdale’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Wingdale is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Wingdale who work in sales jobs (17.76%), food service (11.18%), and management occupations (9.65%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the town 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, Wingdale is worth considering.

One downside of living in Wingdale is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Wingdale, the average commute to work is 36.98 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Wingdale does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The citizens of Wingdale are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.39% of adults in Wingdale have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Wingdale in 2022 was $29,939, 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 $119,756 for a family of four. However, Wingdale contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Wingdale also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.56% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Wingdale is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Wingdale home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wingdale residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Wingdale also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 15.09% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Wingdale include Irish, Italian, German, French, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Wingdale is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Wingdale, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Length of Commute

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. 10.0% 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 95.4% of all neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dominican and Croatian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Dominican ancestry and 0.7% have Croatian ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Wingdale are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 70.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 21.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.7% 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, 30.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 25.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.6%), and 18.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 88.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (10.5%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Wingdale, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (13.9%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (13.9%), and residents who report German roots (11.7%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (6.6%), along with some English ancestry residents (6.0%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (34.3% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (84.7%) 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 (7.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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