Garden City is a medium-sized village located in the state of New York. With a population of 21,662 people and seven constituent neighborhoods, Garden City is the 84th largest community in New York.

Garden City is a decidedly white-collar village, with fully 95.30% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Garden City is a village of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Garden City who work in sales jobs (18.20%), management occupations (15.06%), and office and administrative support jobs (12.95%).

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

In addition, Garden City 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, Garden City 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, Garden City really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Garden City 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.

One downside of living in Garden City, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.55 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.

For the size of the village, public transportation in Garden City is quite heavily used. Mostly, people who use it for their daily commute are taking the train. For Garden City, the benefits are reduced air pollution and congestion on the highways.

Garden City Information and Demographics

If knowledge is power, Garden City is a pretty powerful place. 61.82% of the adults in Garden City have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 14.96% for all cities and towns.

The per capita income in Garden City in 2000 was $53,196, which is wealthy relative to New York and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $212,784 for a family of four. However, Garden City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Garden City home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Garden City is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Garden City include Irish, Italian, German, English, Polish, and Greek.

The most common language spoken in Garden City is English.