Clifton Park is a medium-sized town located in the state of New York. With a population of 39,002 people and five constituent neighborhoods, Clifton Park is the 28th largest community in New York.

Clifton Park is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 86.62% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Clifton Park is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Clifton Park who work in office and administrative support jobs (15.03%), management occupations (12.83%), and sales jobs (11.87%).

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

Clifton Park, while not large, also appears to be attractive to some younger, educated professionals, who help shape the character of the town.

In addition to being popular with young singles, Clifton Park is also home to many people who can 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, Clifton 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, Clifton Park really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Clifton 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.

Clifton Park is a very car-oriented town: 97.5% of people use private automobiles to get to and from work. In fact, the general consensus among people in Clifton Park is that if you need to get anywhere, you're going to have to drive. The landscape is very car-oriented, and features shopping centers, strip malls, parking lots, and wide streets. Pedestrians are discouraged by the fact that sidewalks are not always present, which makes attempts at walking downright daunting in certain parts of town.

Clifton Park Information and Demographics

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Clifton Park, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Clifton Park is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 46.01% 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 Clifton Park in 2000 was $29,611, 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 $118,444 for a family of four. However, Clifton Park contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Clifton Park is English.