Voorheesville is a very small village located in the state of New York. With a population of 2,705 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Voorheesville is the 533rd largest community in New York.

Voorheesville is a decidedly white-collar village, with fully 85.44% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Voorheesville is a village of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Voorheesville who work in office and administrative support jobs (19.41%), management occupations (12.26%), and sales jobs (7.95%).

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

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

Voorheesville is a very car-oriented village. 98.13% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Voorheesville is a small village, 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. Voorheesville 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 village, Voorheesville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Voorheesville Information and Demographics

The education level of Voorheesville citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (14.96%): 39.96% of adults in Voorheesville have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Voorheesville in 2000 was $25,760, 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 $103,040 for a family of four. However, Voorheesville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Voorheesville is English.