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Honeoye, NY

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Overview


Honeoye is a tiny town located in the state of New York. With a population of 723 people and just one neighborhood, Honeoye is the 815th largest community in New York. Much of the housing stock in Honeoye was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Honeoye economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Honeoye, where the median household income is $64,145.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Honeoye isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Honeoye are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Honeoye is a town of service providers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Honeoye who work in maintenance occupations (16.83%), personal care services (13.02%), and food service (12.70%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 13.33% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Honeoye is worth considering.

As is often the case in a small town, Honeoye doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The overall education level of Honeoye is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 25.43% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Honeoye in 2022 was $37,661, which is middle income relative to New York, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $150,644 for a family of four. However, Honeoye contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Honeoye is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Honeoye home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Honeoye residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Honeoye include English, German, Irish, Jamaican, and Italian.

In addition, Honeoye has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (19.85%).

The most common language spoken in Honeoye is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

People

If you are planning to retire in New York, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in New York, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 97.8% of neighborhoods in NY. If a New York retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit.

In addition, astoundingly, the neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular Honeoye neighborhood.

Real Estate

Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 34.0%, which is higher than 96.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Irish and English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 32.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Irish ancestry and 31.1% have English ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 21.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Honeoye are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.3% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 54.5% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 42.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 34.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (13.9%), and 9.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Honeoye, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (32.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (31.1%), and residents who report German roots (29.8%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (4.3%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.9%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (75.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (5.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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