Loch Sheldrake is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 1,025 people and just one neighborhood, Loch Sheldrake is the 755th largest community in New York.
Unlike some towns, Loch Sheldrake isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Loch Sheldrake are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Loch Sheldrake is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Loch Sheldrake who work in maintenance occupations (13.92%), office and administrative support (13.42%), and food service (13.42%).
A relatively large number of people in Loch Sheldrake telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 14.25% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
Another notable thing is that Loch Sheldrake is an extremely popular destination for tourists and seasonal residents. So much of the population is seasonal such that the town’s population swells significantly during the vacation season, and drops again when the season ends. Because of this, much of the local economy is centered around tourism; some businesses may be operated only during the high season. During the low season, year-round residents will notice that the city is a substantially quieter place to live.
Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 14.46 minutes getting to work every day.
Being a small town, Loch Sheldrake does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Loch Sheldrake has a very low overall level of education: only 8.79% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Loch Sheldrake in 2022 was $9,289, which is low income relative to New York and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $37,156 for a family of four. Loch Sheldrake also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 43.43% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Loch Sheldrake is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Loch Sheldrake home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Loch Sheldrake residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Loch Sheldrake also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 16.27% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Loch Sheldrake include Sierra Leonean, Italian, German, Other Subsaharan African, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Loch Sheldrake is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Russian.
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.
Whether by choice, divorce, or unplanned pregnancy, single moms may have the toughest job in the book. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that the neighborhood has more single mother households than 99.4% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. Often high concentrations of single mother homes can be a strong indicator of family and social issues such as poverty, high rates of school dropouts, crime, and other societal problems.
In addition, an extraordinary 13.1% of the residents of the neighborhood are currently enrolled in college. This is such a large part of life in this neighborhood that the neighborhood changes a great deal with the change of semesters and is far quieter during the summer when many students are away.
Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 57.7%, which is higher than 99.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
In addition, the real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.9% of all neighborhoods in America, with 32.5% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French Canadian and Portuguese ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.6% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 1.8% have Portuguese ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Russian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.3% 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 Loch Sheldrake are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 35.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.3% 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, 32.5% 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 26.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (22.0%), and 19.3% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 82.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (9.4%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Loch Sheldrake, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (13.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (5.4%), and residents who report Polish roots (5.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.7%), along with some French Canadian ancestry residents (3.6%), 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 (67.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (65.8%) 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 (21.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.