Great Bend is a tiny town located in the state of New York. With a population of 807 people and just one neighborhood, Great Bend is the third largest community in New York.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Great Bend is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Great Bend is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Great Bend who work in office and administrative support (47.86%), management occupations (11.43%), and healthcare suport services (10.48%).
Great Bend is home to a number of people employed in the armed forces. When you visit or walk around Great Bend, some of the people you will bump into will be military people In and out of uniform, jogging, shopping and generally out and about town.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Great Bend spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 19.24 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.
Great Bend is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Great Bend isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 100.00% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.
As is often the case in a small town, Great Bend doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Great Bend who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.87% of the adults in Great Bend have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Great Bend in 2022 was $19,332, which is low income relative to New York and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $77,328 for a family of four. However, Great Bend contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Great Bend home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Great Bend residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Great Bend include Irish, English, Italian, German, and British.
The most common language spoken in Great Bend is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Korean.
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.
The neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 99.3% 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.
Furthermore, the neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 96.5% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 10.3% have French ancestry.
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 Great Bend are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.9% 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, 37.6% 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 25.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.4%), and 16.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.1% of households.
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 Great Bend, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (12.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.3%), and residents who report French roots (10.3%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (4.6%), 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 (48.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.9%) 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 (8.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.