Dover Plains is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 1,322 people and just one neighborhood, Dover Plains is the 702nd largest community in New York. Dover Plains has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Dover Plains is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Dover Plains is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Dover Plains who work in office and administrative support (27.22%), food service (13.41%), and legal occupations (7.10%).
In Dover Plains, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 38.62 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. One bright side is that local public transit is widely used, so it may be an option to avoid the headache of driving in the heavy traffic by leaving the car at home and taking transit.
In Dover Plains, a lot of people use the subway to get to work every day though Dover Plains is a relatively small town. Those that ride the subway are primarily traveling out of town to good jobs in other cities.
The education level of Dover Plains citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 22.65% of adults in Dover Plains have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Dover Plains in 2022 was $31,846, which is lower middle income relative to New York, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $127,384 for a family of four. However, Dover Plains contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Dover Plains also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.46% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Dover Plains is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Dover Plains home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dover Plains residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Dover Plains also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 24.70% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Dover Plains include Irish, Italian, German, English, and French Canadian.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Dover Plains's cultural character, accounting for 27.67% of the town’s population.
The most common language spoken in Dover Plains is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Dover Plains, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 34.9% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 96.1% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Romanian and Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Romanian ancestry and 1.9% have Canadian ancestry.
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 Dover Plains are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 68.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 16.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.1% 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, 46.6% 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 24.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (14.7%), and 11.2% 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 81.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.
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 Dover Plains, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Italian (20.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.7%), and residents who report German roots (14.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (10.4%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (5.1%), among others. In addition, 14.5% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (80.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also take the train to get to work (6.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.