One downside of living in Wallkill, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.01 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small town, Wallkill does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Wallkill is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 30.76% of adults in Wallkill have a college degree.
The per capita income in Wallkill in 2018 was $38,472, which is middle income relative to New York, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $153,888 for a family of four.
The people who call Wallkill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wallkill residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Wallkill include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Wallkill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Russian.
