Gasport is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 1,296 people and two associated neighborhoods, Gasport is the 706th largest community in New York. Gasport has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Gasport is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Gasport is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gasport who work in office and administrative support (19.02%), healthcare (16.49%), and sales jobs (8.78%). Because of many things, Gasport is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Gasport really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Gasport perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live. It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Gasport has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Gasport has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Gasport than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Gasport may be for you. One downside of living in Gasport, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.28 minutes every day commuting to work. Being a small town, Gasport does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Gasport are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 37.32% of adults in Gasport have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree. The per capita income in Gasport in 2022 was $38,222, 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 $152,888 for a family of four. However, Gasport contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Gasport home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gasport residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Gasport include German, Polish, Scottish, English, and French. The most common language spoken in Gasport is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Other Indo-European.
