St. Bonaventure is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 1,963 people and just one neighborhood, St. Bonaventure is the 603rd largest community in New York.
St. Bonaventure is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 87.79% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, St. Bonaventure is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in St. Bonaventure who work in food service (18.03%), office and administrative support (16.09%), and sales jobs (14.98%).
Of important note, St. Bonaventure is also a town of artists. St. Bonaventure has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape St. Bonaventure’s character.
A relatively large number of people in St. Bonaventure telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 15.76% 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.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of St. Bonaventure spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 16.97 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.
St. Bonaventure is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The education level of St. Bonaventure citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 32.99% of adults in St. Bonaventure have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in St. Bonaventure in 2022 was $20,363, which is low income relative to New York and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $81,452 for a family of four. However, St. Bonaventure contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
St. Bonaventure is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call St. Bonaventure home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of St. Bonaventure residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in St. Bonaventure include Irish, German, Italian, Polish, and English.
The most common language spoken in St. Bonaventure is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
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.
The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 95.8% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.
If you're nearing retirement age, or in retirement, the is an excellent choice for you to consider for top-quality retirement living. This neighborhood is rated by NeighborhoodScout as among the top 7.3% of retiree-friendly neighborhoods in New York, combining peace and quiet, safety from crime, and offering diverse housing options from which retirees can choose. Maybe it's because of these amenities that a large proportion of the residents here are college educated seniors, mixed with other age groups. For these and other reasons, NeighborhoodScout identifies this neighborhood as a top-notch place to consider if you are thinking of or planning to retire in New York.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Eastern European and Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Eastern European ancestry and 22.6% have Irish ancestry.
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 St. Bonaventure are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 50.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.4% 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 63.4% of America'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, 47.8% 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 24.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (16.5%), and 13.4% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.9% 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 St. Bonaventure, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (32.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (22.6%), and residents who report Italian roots (14.7%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (12.4%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (8.4%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (46.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (83.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.