Editing Blooming Grove, New York (section)

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|align=left
|1800= 1611
|1810= 1759
|1820= 2219
|1830= 2099
|1840= 2396
|1850= 2184
|1860= 2248
|1870= 2502
|1880= 2444
|1890= 2236
|1900= 2188
|1910= 2110
|1920= 1881
|1930= 1922
|1940= 2312
|1950= 2410
|1960= 3777
|1970= 8813
|1980= 12339
|1990= 16673
|2000= 17351
|2010= 18028
|2020= 18811
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|access-date=June 4, 2015}}</ref>
}}
As of the [[census]] of 2010,<ref name="United States Census Bureau">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=April 24, 2015 |title=U.S. Census website }}</ref> there were 18,028 people, 6,284 households, and 4,750 families residing in the town. The population density was {{convert|510.7|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. There were 6,954 housing units at an average density of 197 per square mile (76/km{{sup|2}}). The racial makeup of the town was 84.5% [[white (U.S. Census)|white]], 6.2% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], .5% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 2.2% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], .02% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 3.8% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 2.6% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race were 15% of the population.

Of the town's 6,284 households, 39.5% contained children under the age of 18, 62% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 9.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.4% were non-families. Nearly 20% of households had only one member and 6.4% of households consisted only of someone 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.86 and the average family size was 3.33.  The town's population has a wide age distribution, with 25.3% under the age of 18 and 11.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40.8 years. The population was 49.3% male and 50.7% female.

According to the 2013 [[American Community Survey]],<ref name="United States Census Bureau"/> the median income for a household in the town was $89,327, and the median income for a family was $100,142. Full-time, year-round male workers had a median income of $65,685 versus $50,835 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the town was $34,472. About 3.2% of families and 6.2% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 8.8% of those under age 18 and 2.8% of those age 65 or over.

For people 5 years of age and older, an estimated 83.7% spoke only [[English language|English]], 12.1% could speak [[Spanish language|Spanish]] and 21.9% spoke English less than "very well." An estimated 93.4% of people aged five years and older were born in the United States while 1.8% are not citizens. The most common ancestry groups were overwhelmingly estimated to be [[Irish people|Irish]], [[Italian people|Italian]], [[German people|German]] and "[[American ethnicity|American]]."<ref>{{cite web|title=SELECTED SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS IN THE UNITED STATES - 2009-2013 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates |url=https://www.census.gov |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=April 24, 2015 }}</ref>