Because of many things, Deer 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, Deer Park really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Deer Park perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, 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.
One downside of living in Deer Park, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.67 minutes every day commuting to work. However, local public transit is widely used. For those who would prefer to avoid driving entirely and leave their car at home, it may be an option to use the transit instead.
For the size of the town, public transportation in Deer Park is quite heavily used. Mostly, people who use it for their daily commute are taking the train. For Deer Park, the benefits are reduced air pollution and congestion on the highways.
The citizens of Deer Park are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 38.58% of adults in Deer Park have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Deer Park in 2022 was $50,042, 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 $200,168 for a family of four.
Deer Park is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Deer Park home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Deer Park residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Deer Park also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 17.21% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Deer Park include Italian, Irish, German, Haitian, and Jamaican.
In addition, Deer Park has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (18.56%).
The most common language spoken in Deer Park is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French Creole.
