Felts Mills is a tiny town located in the state of New York. With a population of 473 people and just one neighborhood, Felts Mills is the 895th largest community in New York. Felts Mills has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
49.23% of the workforce is employed in the armed forces, making the military a huge focus of life in Felts Mills. Even though it is a military town, the civilian sector still plays an important role in the local economy. The Public Service and Other industries respectively employ 48.48% and 30.30% of the civilian workforce.
Felts Mills 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.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Felts Mills rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.52% of adults 25 and older in Felts Mills have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Felts Mills in 2022 was $24,188, which is low income relative to New York and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $96,752 for a family of four. However, Felts Mills contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Felts Mills home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Felts Mills residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Felts Mills include Irish, German, English, Polish, and Northern European.
The most common language spoken in Felts Mills is English. Other important languages spoken here include Korean and Langs. of India.
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 Felts Mills, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 99.5% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Hungarian and Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian ancestry and 2.6% have Welsh ancestry.
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 Felts Mills are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 55.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 11.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.1% 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, 33.1% of the working population is employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support 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 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (26.2%), and 14.2% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.0% of households. Some people also speak Polish (4.7%).
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 Felts Mills, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (20.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.0%), and residents who report German roots (8.1%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.5%), along with some Hungarian ancestry residents (3.5%), among others.
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 (68.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.4%) 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 (18.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.