Chester is a very small village located in the state of New York. With a population of 3,996 people and three associated neighborhoods, Chester is the 383rd largest community in New York.Chester is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Chester is a village of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Chester who work in sales jobs (20.66%), office and administrative support (12.46%), and management occupations (11.86%). Of important note, Chester is also a village of artists. Chester has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Chester’s character. In Chester, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.40 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. Even though Chester is a smaller village, it has many people who hop on public transportation – mostly the bus for their daily commute to work. Typically, these people are commuting to good jobs in the surrounding cities.In terms of college education, Chester 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: 32.32% of adults in Chester have a college degree. The per capita income in Chester in 2022 was $47,529, 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 $190,116 for a family of four. However, Chester contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Chester is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Chester home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Chester residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Chester also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 37.12% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Chester include Italian, German, Irish, Polish, and Romanian. The most common language spoken in Chester is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.
