Orchard Park is a very small village located in the state of New York. With a population of 3,206 people and four constituent neighborhoods, Orchard Park is the 492nd largest community in New York.

Orchard Park is a decidedly white-collar village, with fully 90.48% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Orchard Park is a village of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Orchard Park who work in office and administrative support jobs (17.58%), sales jobs (16.75%), and teaching (11.04%).

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

Residents of the village have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 19.17 minutes getting to work every day.

Orchard Park is a small village, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Orchard Park, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 98.27% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

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

Orchard Park Information and Demographics

Do you have a 4-year college degree or graduate degree? If so, you may feel right at home in Orchard Park. 49.85% 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 Orchard Park in 2000 was $29,754, 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 $119,016 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Orchard Park is English.