Sandy Creek is a tiny village located in the state of New York. With a population of 626 people and two associated neighborhoods, Sandy Creek is the 838th largest community in New York. Sandy Creek has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Sandy Creek is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 47.06% of the Sandy Creek workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Sandy Creek is a village of construction workers and builders, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sandy Creek who work in healthcare (9.93%), office and administrative support (6.62%), and sales jobs (6.62%). Also of interest is that Sandy Creek has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. It is a fairly quiet village because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Sandy Creek has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Sandy Creek has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Sandy Creek than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Sandy Creek may be for you. In Sandy Creek, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.50 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. Being a small village, Sandy Creek does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Sandy Creek are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 23.96% of adults in Sandy Creek having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Sandy Creek in 2022 was $33,742, which is lower middle income relative to New York, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $134,968 for a family of four. However, Sandy Creek contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Sandy Creek home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sandy Creek residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Sandy Creek include Irish, German, English, French, and Russian. The most common language spoken in Sandy Creek is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
