Hyde Park is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 1,925 people and three associated neighborhoods, Hyde Park is the 608th largest community in New York.Hyde Park is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Hyde Park is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hyde Park who work in law enforcement and fire fighting (20.04%), healthcare (13.43%), and management occupations (12.24%). Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.24% 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.Hyde Park is also a college town, where lots of students live while attending area colleges. Because of the high percentage of people living in Hyde Park enrolled in college, Hyde Park has a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared towards the needs and activities of students. In Hyde Park, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.25 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. One bright side is that local public transit is widely used, so it may be an option to avoid the headache of driving in the heavy traffic by leaving the car at home and taking transit. In Hyde Park, a lot of people use the bus to get to work every day though Hyde Park is a relatively small town. Those that ride the bus are primarily traveling out of town to good jobs in other cities.The citizens of Hyde Park are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 38.13% of adults in Hyde Park have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree. The per capita income in Hyde Park in 2022 was $54,382, which is upper middle income relative to New York, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $217,528 for a family of four. However, Hyde Park contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Hyde Park is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Hyde Park home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hyde Park residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Hyde Park include Irish, German, Italian, English, and European. The most common language spoken in Hyde Park is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
