Le Roy is a very small village located in the state of New York. With a population of 4,262 people and just one neighborhood, Le Roy is the 365th largest community in New York. Much of the housing stock in Le Roy was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.
Unlike some villages, Le Roy isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Le Roy are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Le Roy is a village of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Le Roy who work in sales jobs (13.30%), healthcare (10.66%), and office and administrative support (9.48%).
Also of interest is that Le Roy has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
As is often the case in a small village, Le Roy doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The overall education level of Le Roy citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 30.62% of adults in Le Roy have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%.
The per capita income in Le Roy in 2022 was $37,971, 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 $151,884 for a family of four. However, Le Roy contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Le Roy home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Le Roy residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Le Roy include German, Italian, Irish, English, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Le Roy 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 Italian and Croatian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 24.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Italian ancestry and 1.0% have Croatian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.5% 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 95.5% 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 Le Roy are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 7.9% 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 56.1% 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, 40.4% 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 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.0%), and 10.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 94.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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 Le Roy, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.5%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (24.3%), and residents who report English roots (18.4%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (16.3%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (4.6%), among others.
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 (39.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (5.8%) and 5.4% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.