Groton is a very small village located in the state of New York. With a population of 2,149 people and just one neighborhood, Groton is the 572nd largest community in New York. Groton has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.
Unlike some villages, Groton isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Groton are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Groton is a village of professionals, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Groton who work in management occupations (15.30%), office and administrative support (9.75%), and sales jobs (6.53%).
Of important note, Groton is also a village of artists. Groton has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Groton’s character.
Also of interest is that Groton has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.74% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
The education level of Groton citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 19.18% of adults 25 and older in Groton have a college degree.
The per capita income in Groton in 2022 was $33,029, 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 $132,116 for a family of four. However, Groton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Groton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Groton residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Groton include English, Irish, German, Italian, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Groton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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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 Groton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 4.2% 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 67.4% of America'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, 32.8% 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 31.8% 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 11.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% of households. Some people also speak Polish (3.3%).
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 Groton, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (18.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (15.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (14.1%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (6.1%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (4.7%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.6%) 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 (6.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.