Frewsburg is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 1,843 people and just one neighborhood, Frewsburg is the 623rd largest community in New York.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Frewsburg is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Frewsburg is a town of service providers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Frewsburg who work in food service (18.23%), teaching (14.73%), and office and administrative support (9.11%).
Also of interest is that Frewsburg has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
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, Frewsburg has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Frewsburg a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One of the benefits of Frewsburg is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 16.53 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Being a small town, Frewsburg does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Frewsburg who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.18% of the adults in Frewsburg have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Frewsburg in 2022 was $25,411, which is low income relative to New York, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $101,644 for a family of four. However, Frewsburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Frewsburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Frewsburg residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Frewsburg include German, Swedish, Irish, Polish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Frewsburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 23.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 14.8% 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 99.1% 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 Frewsburg are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 15.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.8% 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 executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 27.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.0%), and 15.0% 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 98.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Frewsburg, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (26.2%). There are also a number of people of Swedish ancestry (23.2%), and residents who report English roots (13.6%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (10.4%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (8.4%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (52.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.8%) 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 (8.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.