About Munsey Park

Munsey Park is a very small village located in the state of New York. With a population of 2,632 people and just one neighborhood, Munsey Park is the 542nd largest community in New York. Munsey Park has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.

Munsey Park is a decidedly white-collar village, with fully 96.11% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Munsey Park is a village of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Munsey Park who work in management occupations (21.11%), sales jobs (16.18%), and teaching (11.68%).

In addition, Munsey Park 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, Munsey Park 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, Munsey Park really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Munsey Park 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 Munsey Park is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Munsey Park, the average commute to work is 39.96 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small village, Munsey Park doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Munsey Park Information and Demographics

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Munsey Park, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Munsey Park is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 73.93% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 14.96%.

The per capita income in Munsey Park in 2000 was $66,772, which is wealthy relative to New York and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $267,088 for a family of four. However, Munsey Park contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The languages spoken by people in Munsey Park 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 Munsey Park is English. Other important languages spoken here include Greek, Chinese, and Spanish.