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 great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Orchard Park a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The village's good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Orchard Park has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Orchard Park's overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Orchard Park spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 19.17 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the village are less than they would otherwise be.

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.

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

Orchard Park Information and Demographics

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Orchard Park, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Orchard Park is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 49.85% 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 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.