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Menands, NY

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Overview


Menands is a very small village located in the state of New York. With a population of 4,489 people and just one neighborhood, Menands is the 350th largest community in New York.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some villages where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Menands is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Menands is a village of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Menands who work in sales jobs (11.50%), management occupations (10.04%), and business and financial occupations (9.19%).

Also of interest is that Menands has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 9.43% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

For a small village, there is also a high proportion of single, often educated, people living in Menands. This is not typical for smaller communities in America, and adds a feeling of vibrancy to Menands.

Demographics

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Menands, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Menands is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 50.35% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 21.84%.

The per capita income in Menands in 2018 was $39,801, 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 $159,204 for a family of four. However, Menands contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Menands is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Menands home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Menands residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Menands include Irish, English, German, French, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Menands is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Other Asian languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Occupations

The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 98.4% 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.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Armenian and French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Armenian ancestry and 8.2% have French ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 4.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Langs. of India at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Menands are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 51.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.8% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 59.1% of America'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, 51.8% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 20.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions (18.0%), and 16.9% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

Languages

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 84.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish, Langs. of India, French and Chinese.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Menands, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (19.5%). There are also a number of people of Asian ancestry (12.4%), and residents who report English roots (11.4%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (9.5%), along with some French ancestry residents (8.2%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (56.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (75.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (7.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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