Munnsville is a tiny village located in the state of New York. With a population of 448 people and just one neighborhood, Munnsville is the 903rd largest community in New York. Much of the housing stock in Munnsville was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.
Unlike some villages where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Munnsville is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Munnsville is a village of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Munnsville who work in teaching (16.90%), healthcare suport services (13.24%), and sales jobs (10.96%).
Munnsville 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 citizens of Munnsville are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 21.18% of adults in Munnsville having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Munnsville in 2022 was $31,600, 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 $126,400 for a family of four. However, Munnsville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Munnsville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Munnsville residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Munnsville include Italian, English, German, Irish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Munnsville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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Significantly, 4.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.9% 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 Munnsville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.3% 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 57.9% of America's neighborhoods.
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In the neighborhood, 36.1% 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 29.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.5%), and 15.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.7% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (4.5%).
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 Munnsville, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (21.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (18.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (16.0%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (6.0%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (4.0%), 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 (43.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.5%) 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 (11.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.