In addition, Floral Park is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates". Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.
Because of many things, Floral Park 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, Floral Park really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Floral Park 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.
One downside of living in Floral Park is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Floral Park, the average commute to work is 33.72 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. On the other hand, local public transit is widely used in the village, so leaving the car at home and taking transit is often a viable alternative. In addition, it is also a pedestrian-friendly village. Many of Floral Park’s neighborhoods are dense enough and have amenities close enough together that people find it feasible to get around on foot.
Despite being a small village, Floral Park has a lot of people using the train to get to and from work every day. Most of these people on the train are using it to get to good jobs in other cities.
If knowledge is power, Floral Park is a pretty powerful place. 60.81% of the adults in Floral Park have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns.
The per capita income in Floral Park in 2022 was $68,495, which is wealthy relative to New York and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $273,980 for a family of four.
Floral Park is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Floral Park home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Floral Park residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Floral Park also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 15.72% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Floral Park include Irish, Italian, German, Polish, and English.
Floral Park also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 19.87%.
The most common language spoken in Floral Park is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.
