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Huntington Station, NY
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Huntington Station profile


Living in Huntington Station



Huntington Station is a medium-sized town located in the state of New York. With a population of 34,878 people and 18 constituent neighborhoods, Huntington Station is the 33rd largest community in New York.

Housing costs in Huntington Station are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in New York.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.44% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

In Huntington Station, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.62 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. One bright side is that local public transit is widely used, so it may be an option to avoid the headache of driving in the heavy traffic by leaving the car at home and taking transit.

Like elsewhere in America, most people in Huntington Station use a private automobile to get to work. But notably, a substantial number of Huntington Station‘s citizens do make use of public transit in their daily commute, primarily riding the train. This helps more people get to work with less air pollution, and require fewer highways to get them there.

The citizens of Huntington Station are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 37.98% of adults in Huntington Station have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Huntington Station in 2018 was $43,565, 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 $174,260 for a family of four. However, Huntington Station contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Huntington Station is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Huntington Station home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Huntington Station residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Huntington Station also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 32.76% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Huntington Station include Italian, Irish, German, Polish, and English.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Huntington Station's cultural character, accounting for 24.42% of the town’s population.

The most common language spoken in Huntington Station is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.