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Irving, NY

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Overview


Irving is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 2,107 people and just one neighborhood, Irving is the 574th largest community in New York.

Occupations and Workforce

Irving is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Irving is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Irving who work in sales jobs (12.02%), management occupations (11.86%), and office and administrative support (7.55%).

Of important note, Irving is also a town of artists. Irving has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Irving’s character.

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, Irving is worth considering.

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

Demographics

The population of Irving overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Irving, 21.24% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Irving in 2022 was $21,695, which is low income relative to New York and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $86,780 for a family of four. However, Irving contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Irving also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.08% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Irving is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Irving home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Irving residents report their race to be Native American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Irving include German, Irish, Jamaican, Italian, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Irving is English. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Occupations

The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 99.1% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American and Jamaican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 60.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 3.7% have Jamaican ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 12.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Irving are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 38.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 88.7% 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, 33.0% 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 28.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (26.0%), and 20.3% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

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 79.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Polish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Irving, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (60.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.4%), and residents who report Mexican roots (6.2%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (3.9%), along with some Jamaican ancestry residents (3.7%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (79.0%) 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 (18.1%) . 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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