Painted Post is a very small village located in the state of New York. With a population of 1,721 people and two associated neighborhoods, Painted Post is the 633rd largest community in New York. Painted Post has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.Painted Post is a decidedly white-collar village, with fully 86.58% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Painted Post is a village of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Painted Post who work in management occupations (14.91%), teaching (13.99%), and sales jobs (13.42%). Also of interest is that Painted Post has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 13.84% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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. Overall, Painted Post’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern. Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Painted Post spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 15.78 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the village are less than they would otherwise be. Being a small village, Painted Post does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The education level of Painted Post citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 36.51% of adults in Painted Post have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree. The per capita income in Painted Post in 2022 was $50,491, 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 $201,964 for a family of four. However, Painted Post contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Painted Post home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Painted Post residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Painted Post include English, Irish, German, Italian, and Polish. The most common language spoken in Painted Post is English. Other important languages spoken here include Slavic languages and Langs. of India.
