Sharon Springs is a tiny village located in the state of New York. With a population of 497 people and just one neighborhood, Sharon Springs is the 889th largest community in New York. Much of the housing stock in Sharon Springs was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.
Unlike some villages, Sharon Springs isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Sharon Springs are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Sharon Springs is a village of managers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sharon Springs who work in management occupations (24.19%), office and administrative support (13.49%), and sales jobs (6.98%).
A relatively large number of people in Sharon Springs telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.52% 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.
Overall, Sharon Springs’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
One downside of living in Sharon Springs, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.87 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small village, Sharon Springs doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The education level of Sharon Springs citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 19.40% of adults 25 and older in Sharon Springs have a college degree.
The per capita income in Sharon Springs in 2022 was $26,198, 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 $104,792 for a family of four. However, Sharon Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Sharon Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sharon Springs residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Sharon Springs include Italian, Irish, German, Polish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Sharon Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Langs. of India and Other Asian 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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.3% 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 98.3% 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 Sharon Springs are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 23.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.8% of U.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, 33.6% 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 29.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.1%), and 17.4% 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 92.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish 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 Sharon Springs, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (13.5%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (12.3%), along with some French ancestry residents (5.6%), 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 (30.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.1%) 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 (10.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.