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Adams Center - Adams, NY

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Overview


Adams Center - Adams is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 3,434 people and just one neighborhood, Adams Center - Adams is the 431st largest community in New York. Adams Center - Adams has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.

Occupations and Workforce

Adams Center - Adams is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Adams Center - Adams is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Adams Center - Adams who work in healthcare (11.82%), office and administrative support (11.22%), and teaching (10.92%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.27% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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

As is often the case in a small town, Adams Center - Adams doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Adams Center - Adams is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 28.39% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Adams Center - Adams in 2022 was $39,014, 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 $156,056 for a family of four. However, Adams Center - Adams contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Adams Center - Adams home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Adams Center - Adams residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Adams Center - Adams include Irish, English, German, Italian, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Adams Center - Adams is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and German/Yiddish.

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.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more French Canadian and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.5% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 4.9% have Dutch ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Adams Center - Adams are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 63.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 15.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.1% 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, 44.8% 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 (16.7%), and 12.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.0% of households. Some people also speak Polish (3.2%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Adams Center - Adams, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (22.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (20.4%), and residents who report German roots (9.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (9.2%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (7.5%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (51.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (79.0%) 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 (11.1%) . 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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