Jordan - Elbridge is a somewhat small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 5,418 people and just one neighborhood, Jordan - Elbridge is the 302nd largest community in New York.
Unlike some towns, Jordan - Elbridge isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Jordan - Elbridge are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Jordan - Elbridge is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Jordan - Elbridge who work in office and administrative support (14.53%), management occupations (10.94%), and food service (8.42%).
Jordan - Elbridge 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.
The education level of Jordan - Elbridge citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 24.32% of adults in Jordan - Elbridge have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Jordan - Elbridge in 2022 was $39,903, 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 $159,612 for a family of four. However, Jordan - Elbridge contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Jordan - Elbridge home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Jordan - Elbridge residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Jordan - Elbridge include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Jordan - Elbridge is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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 Ukrainian and Italian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Ukrainian ancestry and 17.4% have Italian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 12.4% 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 98.7% 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 Jordan - Elbridge are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 43.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 15.4% 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, 35.2% 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 24.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.3%), and 17.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.3% of households. Some people also speak Italian (12.4%).
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 Jordan - Elbridge, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (18.9%), and residents who report English roots (17.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (17.4%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (6.0%), 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 (44.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.2%) 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 (11.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.