FREE Shuttle Service Now Available in Old Forge and Thendara

An exciting new free service is available in the Old Forge/ Thendara area. A looped transit service will be provided through the core of the Old Forge area. The service will be operated with two smaller, shuttle sized vehicles.

The Community Shuttle will travel from Hollister’s Trading Post/ VIEW on the north end of town to the Thendara Railroad Station/ Van Auken’s Inne on the south end of town. The Bear Route and Moose Route shuttles provide approxi-mately 15 stops throughout the town for easy on/off access at points of interest and are fully wheelchair and ADA accessible!

The Community Shuttle is operating as a two-year pilot program through utilization of Federal Rural Transit funding. The pilot has been made possible through the cooperation of Town of Webb and Herkimer County as the project sponsors. Local business contribution and community backing for this shuttle have made it possible; the support is unparalleled in other rural transit systems.

The Map below provides an idea of where the loops run. To get information about the schedule, etc., of this new service, visit Herkimer Oneida Counties Transportation Study website.

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Small Ethnic Populations in Utica and the Surrounding Area

Below is a map of Greater Utica area. the map is laid out to help identify small ethnic populations within census tracts within the City of Utica. These are not the major ethnic groups that dominate the county population. Around 80% of people living in Oneida County identify themselves as being either Irish, Italian, German, Polish or English.

Instead these are the next most popular ethnicities/ancestries identified by people within each census tract. Generally speaking these are very small groups of people - typically somewhere between 50 and 2500 people. So these ethnicities or ancestries identified on the maps below are small pockets of of people who maintain an identification with less familiar backgrounds.

When looking at the maps beware of a couple of things. The exact locations of the people claiming to be "Canadian" in a tract, for example, is unknown. The placement of the label is purely a matter of convenience, not an indication of where any group specifically lives. Second, the size of the type is used to suggest the relative size of the populations in each group. Larger type size equals more people.

So take a look at your area, r4ecognize that most of the people that live there are probably one of the Big Five (Italian, Irish, German, Polish or English), but that there are other groups living in your community who may have a considerably different background than you have ! Click to enlarge the map.

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Small Ethnic Populations By Census Tracts In Herkimer

Below are two maps of Herkimer County. Each helps identify small ethnic populations within census tracts within the census tracts of the county. These are not the major ethnic groups that dominate the county population. Around 80% of people living in Herkimer County identify themselves as being either Irish, Italian, German, Polish or English.

Instead these are the next most popular ethnicities/ancestries identified by people within each census tract. Generally speaking these are very small groups of people - typically somewhere between 50 and 350 people. So these ethnicities or ancestries identified on the maps below are small pockets of of people who maintain an identification with less familiar backgrounds.

When looking at the maps beware of a couple of things. The exact locations of the people claiming to be "Canadian" in a tract, for example, is unknown. The placement of the label is purely a matter of convenience, not an indication of where any group specifically lives. Second, the size of the type is used to suggest the relative size of the populations in each group. Larger type size equals more people.

So take a look at your area, r4ecognize that most of the people that live there are probably one of the Big Five (Italian, Irish, German, Polish or English), but that there are other groups living in your community who may have a considerably different background than you have !

County-wide Tracts

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Valley and Village Tracts

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Who Works From Home ? A Look at Our Regional Stay At Home Workers

Demo Memo recently released a piece on the education of people who work from home. In a similar vein I wanted to look at the backgrounds of people in our region that work from home. The graphic below provides some insight into the characteristics, as well as the types of jobs people do that work from their homes. It comes from the 2013 ACS PUMS data for the region.

Five For the Fourth: The Top Five First Ancestries Cited in Each Municipality in Herkimer County

For this Fourth of July where we celebrate the melting pot that is our country, click on the table below to see the top five first ancestries cited by ACS respondents for each of the municipal areas of Herkimer County. Note within the town rankings where the town (with villages included) may have one set of top five ancestries, but when those villages are pulled out of the data, the remainder of the town might have a different leading ancestry !

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