Fayetteville is a very small village located in the state of New York. With a population of 4,222 people and three constituent neighborhoods, Fayetteville is the 421st largest community in New York.

Fayetteville is a decidedly white-collar village, with fully 88.05% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Fayetteville is a village of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fayetteville who work in teaching (14.40%), sales jobs (13.11%), and office and administrative support jobs (10.75%).

Also of interest is that Fayetteville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

In addition, Fayetteville is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are people who are both educated and wealthy, and thus tend to be older, richer, and more established than young professionals. "Urban sophisticates" is not just about being educated and well-off financially: it is a point of view and state of mind, one that you might call 'urbaneness.' But such people can and do regularly live in small towns, suburbs and rural areas, as well as in big cities. They read, support the arts and high-end shops, and love travel.

Because of many things, Fayetteville 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, Fayetteville really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Fayetteville perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, 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.

Fayetteville is very much a car-oriented village. This is because the population of Fayetteville isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 97.76% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Being a small village, Fayetteville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Fayetteville Information and Demographics

Do you have a 4-year college degree or graduate degree? If so, you may feel right at home in Fayetteville. 55.74% of adults here have a 4-year degree or graduate degree, whereas the national average for all cities and towns is just 14.96%.

The per capita income in Fayetteville in 2000 was $30,284, 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 $121,136 for a family of four.

The people who call Fayetteville home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Fayetteville is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Fayetteville include Irish, German, English, Italian, Polish, Scotch-Irish, and British.

The most common language spoken in Fayetteville is English.