Copenhagen is a tiny village located in the state of New York. With a population of 661 people and just one neighborhood, Copenhagen is the 843rd largest community in New York. Copenhagen has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.
Unlike some villages where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Copenhagen is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Copenhagen is a village of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Copenhagen who work in sales jobs (10.36%), healthcare suport services (9.39%), and office and administrative support (8.41%).
There are quite a few people in the armed forces living in Copenhagen, and when you visit or drive around town, you will see military people in and out of uniform, shopping, enjoying life, and being part of the community.
Copenhagen’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
Copenhagen is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In terms of college education, Copenhagen is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.22% of adults 25 and older in Copenhagen have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Copenhagen in 2022 was $30,611, 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 $122,444 for a family of four. However, Copenhagen contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Copenhagen is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Copenhagen home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Copenhagen residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Copenhagen include Irish, German, English, Italian, and Hungarian.
The most common language spoken in Copenhagen 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.
With 2.2% of employed workers living in the neighborhood active in the military, this neighborhood has the distinction of having a higher proportion of people in the military than 96.5% of American neighborhoods. This is a major shaper of the neighborhood's culture and character.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 33 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.1% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Lebanese and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Lebanese ancestry and 3.6% have French Canadian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Copenhagen are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 51.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 25.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 36.7% 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 23.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (19.9%), and 18.7% 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 95.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and German/Yiddish.
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 Copenhagen, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (18.1%), and residents who report English roots (13.0%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (6.8%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (5.5%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (72.1%) 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 (10.7%) and 7.3% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.