Pottersville is a tiny town located in the state of New York. With a population of 359 people and just one neighborhood, Pottersville is the 932nd largest community in New York.
Pottersville is a blue-collar town, with 52.81% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Pottersville is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pottersville who work in maintenance occupations (16.85%), sales jobs (15.73%), and architecture and engineering (11.24%).
Pottersville’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Pottersville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Pottersville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Pottersville, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 37.92 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Pottersville is a very car-oriented town. 96.63% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Pottersville is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Pottersville has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.
Pottersville is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The education level of Pottersville citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 36.96% of adults in Pottersville have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Pottersville in 2022 was $23,622, which is low income relative to New York and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $94,488 for a family of four. Pottersville also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 46.90% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Pottersville is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Pottersville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pottersville residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Pottersville include Italian, English, Irish, French, and German.
The most common language spoken in Pottersville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
Vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 45.5% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 98.4% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.
In addition, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 29 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.9% of America.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 90.1% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.3% of all American neighborhoods.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 4.2% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 96.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Hungarian and Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian ancestry and 30.4% have Irish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.5% 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 96.4% 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 Pottersville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.4% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 51.4% of America'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, 30.4% 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 25.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.6%), and 19.3% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households. Some people also speak Italian (7.5%).
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 Pottersville, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (30.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (18.4%), and residents who report Italian roots (13.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (13.3%), along with some French ancestry residents (10.5%), 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 (40.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (90.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.