About Burnt Hills

Burnt Hills is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 3,674 people and just one neighborhood, Burnt Hills is the 457th largest community in New York.

Burnt Hills is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Burnt Hills is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Burnt Hills who work in office and administrative support jobs (16.82%), teaching (14.23%), and management occupations (11.12%).

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

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

Burnt Hills is a very car-oriented town. 97.53% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Burnt Hills is a small town, and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Burnt Hills has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

Being a small town, Burnt Hills does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Burnt Hills Information and Demographics

The citizens of Burnt Hills are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 38.70% of adults in Burnt Hills have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Burnt Hills in 2000 was $24,437, which is upper middle income relative to New York and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $97,748 for a family of four. However, Burnt Hills contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Burnt Hills is English.