South Fallsburg - Hurleyville is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 3,690 people and just one neighborhood, South Fallsburg - Hurleyville is the 427th largest community in New York.
Unlike some towns, South Fallsburg - Hurleyville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in South Fallsburg - Hurleyville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, South Fallsburg - Hurleyville is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in South Fallsburg - Hurleyville who work in food service (15.73%), sales jobs (10.40%), and management occupations (10.40%).
As is often the case in a small town, South Fallsburg - Hurleyville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The overall education level of South Fallsburg - Hurleyville is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 26.60% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in South Fallsburg - Hurleyville in 2022 was $23,191, which is low income relative to New York and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $92,764 for a family of four. However, South Fallsburg - Hurleyville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
South Fallsburg - Hurleyville is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call South Fallsburg - Hurleyville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of South Fallsburg - Hurleyville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. South Fallsburg - Hurleyville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 24.01% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in South Fallsburg - Hurleyville include Irish, Polish, Italian, German, and African.
The most common language spoken in South Fallsburg - Hurleyville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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.
Vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 31.1% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 95.2% 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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Austrian and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Austrian ancestry and 4.3% have Dutch ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 12.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.8% 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 South Fallsburg - Hurleyville are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 91.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 43.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 91.3% 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, 32.2% 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 29.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (19.2%), and 16.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support 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 70.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Polish, Langs. of India and German/Yiddish.
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 South Fallsburg - Hurleyville, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (16.9%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (10.0%), and residents who report Italian roots (7.6%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (6.9%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (5.0%), among others. In addition, 12.2% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (67.0%) 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 (21.2%) and 8.1% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.