Wainscott is a census-designated place (CDP) that roughly corresponds to the hamlet (unincorporated community) with the same name in the town of East Hampton in Suffolk County, New York on the South Shore of Long Island. As of the United States 2000 Census, the CDP population was 628.[1]
Wainscott is also listed on United States Board on Geographic Names database as Midhampton although the name is not used locally.
Background and History
Wainscott was home to the last public one-room school house operating in New York until an annex was built in 2008.
The hamlet was named after Wainscott, Kent, a village north of Maidstone, England, an area immortalized in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and from which most of the early settlers of the East Hampton came.[2]
Facing the Atlantic Ocean to the south, Wainscott has some of the most expensive property in the world. On its west is the village of Sagaponack, New York and on the east is the village of East Hampton.
Its east side faces Georgica Pond. The exclusive Georgica Association has a 100-acre subdivision on the west side of the pond. The Association's most famous house called the "Michael Kennedy house" (a lawyer who represented such diverse clients as the Black Panthers and Ivana Trump) was the beach house featured in the 2004 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The PBS children's show It's a Big Big World is taped in the industrial park at the East Hampton Airport which is in Wainscott.
The Wainscott railroad station on the Montauk Branch closed in the 1930s.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 7.3 square miles (18.9 km²), of which, 6.8 square miles (17.6 km²) of it is land and 0.5 square miles (1.3 km²) of it (6.85%) is water.
Demographics
Demographics may be misleading because of the extensive number of multimillion dollar second homes in the CDP.[citation needed]
As of the census of 2000, there were 628 people, 260 households, and 152 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 92.3 per square mile (35.7/km²). There were 764 housing units at an average density of 112.3/sq mi (43.4/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 90.45% White, 4.14% African American, 0.32% Asian, 1.91% from other races, and 3.18% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 7.01% of the population.[1]
There were 260 households out of which 22.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 45.4% were married couples living together, 10.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 41.5% were non-families. 31.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 13.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.28 and the average family size was 2.82.[1]
In the CDP the population was spread out with 18.6% under the age of 18, 5.7% from 18 to 24, 28.7% from 25 to 44, 27.9% from 45 to 64, and 19.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 43 years. For every 100 females there were 99.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 102.0 males.[1]
The median income for a household in the CDP was $55,714, and the median income for a family was $52,250. Males had a median income of $46,250 versus $41,458 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $34,058. About 2.0% of families and 9.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5.7% of those under age 18 and 5.5% of those age 65 or over.[1]
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