Hopewell Junction, NY real estate and demographic information

About Hopewell Junction

Hopewell Junction is a tiny town located in the state of New York. With a population of 377 people and six constituent neighborhoods, Hopewell Junction is the 877th largest community in New York.

Hopewell Junction is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Hopewell Junction is a town of professionals, sales and office workers and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hopewell Junction who work in management occupations (13.08%), office and administrative support (11.32%) and sales jobs (10.23%).

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

A relatively large number of people in Hopewell Junction telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.04% 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.

In addition, Hopewell Junction is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates", which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.

Because of many things, Hopewell Junction 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, Hopewell Junction really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Hopewell Junction perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, 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 Hopewell Junction is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Hopewell Junction, the average commute to work is 40.98 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Hopewell Junction is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Hopewell Junction Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Hopewell Junction is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 25.76% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Hopewell Junction in 2010 was $30,141, 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 $120,564 for a family of four.

Hopewell Junction is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Hopewell Junction home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hopewell Junction residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Hopewell Junction include Irish, Italian and German.

The most common language spoken in Hopewell Junction is English. Other important languages spoken here include Chinese and Spanish.