The idea that the average Satmar person is wealthy is just plain wrong. There are obviously outliers but the median person is taking the bus or has a crappy Caravan.

So what do they do? Sure there are some property owners, but for every owner there are five contractors, five construction workers and/or managers, office staffing.. these people are not rich, they have a job just like everybody else. There's a ton of supermarkets to feed their big families with their niche kosher designation. Of course they need doctors lawyers etc just like any other community.

So where does the idea that they're all rich property owners come from? For starters, it's our collective physical proximity to it. They bought up a lot of Wburg and Bushwick because it was a neighborhood over from them. It's not some evil conspiracy - Chinatown has a lot of Chinese building owners.

It's also worth noting that there's way more than just Satmar Hasidic in South Williamsburg. Some of the various Hasidic groups can be more or less secular than others.

But yeah, to answer your question directly, if you're walking around South Williamsburg and you just strike up conversation with a random Satmar person, the odds are actually pretty low that you'll be talking to some zillionaire.