Livingston Manor is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 1,053 people and just one neighborhood, Livingston Manor is the 750th largest community in New York. Livingston Manor has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Livingston Manor is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 93.83% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Livingston Manor is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Livingston Manor who work in law enforcement and fire fighting (18.94%), healthcare (16.30%), and maintenance occupations (14.10%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 10.57% 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 overall crime rate in Livingston Manor is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
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!) Livingston Manor 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. Livingston Manor has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Livingston Manor than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Livingston Manor may be for you.
One downside of living in Livingston Manor is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Livingston Manor, the average commute to work is 31.44 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Livingston Manor doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Livingston Manor are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.13% of adults in Livingston Manor have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Livingston Manor in 2022 was $26,115, 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 $104,460 for a family of four. However, Livingston Manor contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Livingston Manor is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Livingston Manor home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Livingston Manor residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Livingston Manor include Italian, German, Irish, Polish, and Brazilian.
Livingston Manor also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 21.34%.
The most common language spoken in Livingston Manor is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Slavic languages.
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.
In a nation where 1 out of every 4 children lives in poverty, the neighborhood stands out as being ranked among the lowest 0.0% of neighborhoods affected by this global issue.
In addition, divorcees may find friendship and understanding in this neighborhood, as 21.9% of its residents are divorced. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis found that this divorce rate is higher than in 97.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Austrian and Brazilian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Austrian ancestry and 2.1% have Brazilian ancestry.
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 Livingston Manor are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 92.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 0.0% 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 100.0% 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, 36.8% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 31.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (24.4%), and 9.5% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 89.0% of households.
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 Livingston Manor, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (29.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.9%), and residents who report English roots (13.8%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (10.4%), along with some Austrian ancestry residents (7.8%), among others. In addition, 10.0% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (81.6%) 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 (9.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.