Staten Island, NY (Howland Hook)

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 Howland Hook neighborhood in Staten Island are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 52.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.4% 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 69.3% 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 Howland Hook neighborhood, 38.4% 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 clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 27.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.8%), and 11.6% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

Languages

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 Howland Hook neighborhood is English, spoken by 56.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Arabic, Italian and French.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Howland Hook neighborhood in Staten Island, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Puerto Rican (16.7%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (8.5%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (8.1%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (7.7%), along with some African ancestry residents (7.0%), among others. In addition, 22.8% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in Howland Hook neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (47.0% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (53.1%) ride the bus to get to work. In addition, quite a number also drive alone in a private automobile to get to work (34.8%) and 5.6% of residents also take the train for their daily commute. The bus provides a valuable service in the Howland Hook neighborhood of Staten Island by getting a lot of residents to and from work daily, reducing the costs of commuting and reducing some congestion on the roads as well.