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. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Honeoye, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Honeoye, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Honeoye’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Honeoye does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $64,145.00.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Honeoye is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce 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.
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.
Being a small town, Honeoye does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Honeoye is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 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.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Honeoye, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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, 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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.