Hyde Park is also a college town, where lots of students live while attending area colleges. Because of the high percentage of people living in Hyde Park enrolled in college, Hyde Park has a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared towards the needs and activities of students.
One downside of living in Hyde Park, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.25 minutes every day commuting to work. However, local public transit is widely used. For those who would prefer to avoid driving entirely and leave their car at home, it may be an option to use the transit instead.
Despite being a small town, Hyde Park has a lot of people using the bus to get to and from work every day. Most of these people on the bus are using it to get to good jobs in other cities.
The population of Hyde Park is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 21.84% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 38.13% of adults in Hyde Park have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Hyde Park in 2022 was $54,382, which is upper middle income relative to New York, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $217,528 for a family of four. However, Hyde Park contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Hyde Park is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Hyde Park home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hyde Park residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Hyde Park include Irish, German, Italian, English, and European.
The most common language spoken in Hyde Park is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
