Overview
Dryden is a very small village located in the state of New York. With a population of 1,863 people and just one neighborhood, Dryden is the 614th largest community in New York.
Occupations and Workforce
Dryden is a decidedly white-collar village, with fully 87.87% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Dryden is a village of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dryden who work in sales jobs (16.10%), teaching (14.33%), and management occupations (12.46%).
Of important note, Dryden is also a village of artists. Dryden has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Dryden鈥檚 character.
Also of interest is that Dryden has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in Dryden telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 17.27% 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.
Setting & Lifestyle
Demographics
The education level of Dryden ranks among the highest in the nation. Of the 25-and-older adult population in Dryden, 44.73% have at least a bachelor's degree. The typical US community has just 21.84% of its adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree.
The per capita income in Dryden in 2022 was $37,829, which is middle income relative to New York, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $151,316 for a family of four. However, Dryden contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Dryden is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Dryden home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dryden residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Dryden include Irish, German, English, Italian, and French.
The most common language spoken in Dryden is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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People
An extraordinary 14.3% 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.
In addition, according to 蘑菇视频's research, is better suited for first-time home buyers than 86.0% of neighborhoods in the state. Most homes here are priced below the state's median house value, yet maintain comparably good appreciation rates over the last decade relative to other neighborhoods in New York. Along with an exclusive multi-metric measure of neighborhood quality developed by 蘑菇视频 that scores high here in this neighborhood, this means that buying into the neighborhood is not only an accessible option but considered a decent first time home buyer choice for building equity in your first home, while being in a quality neighborhood In addition to being an excellent choice for first-time home buyers, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for active retirees.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Croatian and Ukrainian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Croatian ancestry and 1.6% have Ukrainian ancestry.
The Neighbors
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. 蘑菇视频's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Dryden are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. 蘑菇视频's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 44.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 92.0% 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, 56.9% 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 24.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (9.5%), and 9.1% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.6% of households. Some people also speak Polish (3.9%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture 鈥� our learned behavior 鈥� 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 Dryden, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (19.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (16.9%), and residents who report German roots (13.6%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (10.5%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (4.3%), among others.
Getting to Work
How you get to work 鈥� car, bus, train or other means 鈥� 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 (51.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (69.9%) 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 (10.0%) and 5.5% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
