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 $70,264.00.
Honeoye is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 86.53% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Honeoye is a town of service providers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Honeoye who work in food service (20.63%), management occupations (14.53%), and architecture and engineering (13.05%).
A relatively large number of people in Honeoye telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.21% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Honeoye 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. Honeoye has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Honeoye than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Honeoye may be for you.
One downside of living in Honeoye, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.72 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small town, Honeoye does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Honeoye citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 22.80% of adults in Honeoye have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Honeoye in 2022 was $37,421, 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 $149,684 for a family of four. However, Honeoye contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Honeoye is a very 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, Irish, German, Jamaican, and African.
In addition, Honeoye has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (17.71%).
The most common language spoken in Honeoye is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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.
Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.
In addition, 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 98.7% of neighborhoods in NY. If a New York retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit.
Also, divorcees may find friendship and understanding in this neighborhood, as 19.7% of its residents are divorced. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis found that this divorce rate is higher than in 95.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more English and Lithuanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 33.1% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry and 2.6% have Lithuanian 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.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this 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 47.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% 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 100.0% of America's neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 54.5% 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 27.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (12.7%), and 5.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 99.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Honeoye, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (33.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (30.2%), and residents who report German roots (25.1%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (5.7%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (4.3%), among others. In addition, 11.1% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (78.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.