Guilderland is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 2,772 people and just one neighborhood, Guilderland is the 496th largest community in New York.
Guilderland is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 91.59% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Guilderland is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Guilderland who work in computer science and math (14.79%), teaching (11.23%), and healthcare (10.50%).
Also of interest is that Guilderland 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: 14.10% 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.
For a small town, there is also a high proportion of single, often educated, people living in Guilderland. This is not typical for smaller communities in America, and adds a feeling of vibrancy to Guilderland.
Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Guilderland, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Guilderland is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 61.15% 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 Guilderland in 2022 was $49,527, which is upper middle income relative to New York, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $198,108 for a family of four. However, Guilderland contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Guilderland is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Guilderland home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Guilderland residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Guilderland include Irish, German, Italian, Polish, and English.
Guilderland also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 33.19%.
The most common language spoken in Guilderland is English. Other important languages spoken here include Other Asian languages 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 Guilderland, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
If knowledge is power, then imagine the cumulative power of one neighborhood where many of the adults have earned an advanced degree, such as a Masters, law degree, medical degree, or even a Ph.D. This is certainly the case in the neighborhood, where 40.7% have earned an advanced degree. Compare that to the average neighborhood in America, where just 13.7% of adults have completed a post-graduate degree, and you can see why this neighborhood is a stand out. In fact, this neighborhood has a higher rate of adults with an advanced degree than 97.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Asian and Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 35.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Asian ancestry and 0.8% have Belgian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak African languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.0% 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 Guilderland are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 60.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 15.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.7% 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, 65.3% 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 14.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (11.7%), and 8.5% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
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 68.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish, Spanish, African languages and Langs. of India.
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 Guilderland, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Asian (35.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.4%), and residents who report German roots (10.8%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (9.1%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (6.2%), among others. In addition, 33.2% 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (68.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (65.7%) 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 (12.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.