Tillson is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 1,516 people and just one neighborhood, Tillson is the 680th largest community in New York.
Tillson is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 86.82% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Tillson is a town of service providers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Tillson who work in healthcare suport services (36.51%), business and financial occupations (10.58%), and management occupations (8.15%).
Also of interest is that Tillson has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.02% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
Overall, Tillson’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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!) Tillson 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. Tillson has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Tillson than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Tillson may be for you.
As is often the case in a small town, Tillson doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Tillson is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 27.79% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Tillson in 2022 was $39,152, which is middle income relative to New York, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $156,608 for a family of four. However, Tillson contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Tillson is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Tillson home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tillson residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Tillson also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 14.95% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Tillson include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Polish.
In addition, Tillson has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (28.90%).
The most common language spoken in Tillson is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
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.
If you are planning to retire in New York, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in New York, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 99.4% of neighborhoods in NY. If a New York retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh and Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry and 22.0% have Irish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Urdu, which is the national language of Pakistan, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Tillson are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 50.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 25.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.0% 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, 40.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 32.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (14.1%), and 13.0% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.1%).
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 Tillson, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (22.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (21.0%), and residents who report English roots (18.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (14.6%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (7.3%), among others. In addition, 19.4% 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 (48.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.5%) 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.