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Avoca, NY

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Overview


Avoca is a tiny village located in the state of New York. With a population of 840 people and just one neighborhood, Avoca is the 799th largest community in New York. Avoca has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some villages, Avoca isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Avoca are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Avoca is a village of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Avoca who work in maintenance occupations (12.80%), office and administrative support (12.14%), and community and social services (8.17%).

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet village 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!) Avoca 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. Avoca has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Avoca than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Avoca may be for you.

Being a small village, Avoca does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Avoca who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.80% of the adults in Avoca have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Avoca in 2022 was $27,750, 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 $111,000 for a family of four. However, Avoca contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Avoca is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

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.

Real Estate

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 35 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.8% of America.

Diversity

Significantly, 6.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Avoca are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.4% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 52.3% of America's neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 34.4% 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 28.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.9%), and 14.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 97.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian, Polish and Spanish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Avoca, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (18.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (18.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (13.1%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.5%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (3.3%), 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 (39.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.9%) 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 (8.3%) . 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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