Hannibal is a tiny village located in the state of New York. With a population of 541 people and just one neighborhood, Hannibal is the 870th largest community in New York. Much of the housing stock in Hannibal was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Hannibal is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 42.61% of the Hannibal workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Hannibal is a village of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Hannibal who work in office and administrative support (15.94%), sales jobs (12.17%), and computer science and math (6.09%).
Also of interest is that Hannibal has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
The village is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Hannibal has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Hannibal a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Hannibal is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The rate of college-level education in Hannibal is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.47% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Hannibal in 2022 was $29,198, 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 $116,792 for a family of four. However, Hannibal contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Hannibal home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hannibal residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Hannibal include English, Irish, German, Polish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Hannibal is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Austrian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Austrian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Hannibal are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 43.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 43.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 91.2% of U.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, 35.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 24.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.1%), and 18.6% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% of households. Some people also speak Polish (7.8%).
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 Hannibal, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (18.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.5%), and residents who report German roots (13.9%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (6.4%), along with some French ancestry residents (6.1%), 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 (31.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (88.2%) 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 (7.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.