Greenfield Center is a somewhat small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 8,137 people and two associated neighborhoods, Greenfield Center is the 218th largest community in New York.Greenfield Center is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Greenfield Center is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Greenfield Center who work in management occupations (11.85%), business and financial occupations (11.30%), and office and administrative support (10.21%). Also of interest is that Greenfield Center has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 15.97% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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. Because of many things, Greenfield Center is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Greenfield Center really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Greenfield Center perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live. Being a small town, Greenfield Center does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The education level of Greenfield Center citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 37.54% of adults in Greenfield Center have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree. The per capita income in Greenfield Center in 2022 was $56,732, which is wealthy relative to New York and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $226,928 for a family of four. However, Greenfield Center contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Greenfield Center home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Greenfield Center residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Greenfield Center include Irish, German, English, Italian, and Polish. The most common language spoken in Greenfield Center is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
