Averill Park vs Poestenkill

A side-by-side comparison of Averill Park and Poestenkill: population, income, housing, and more.

Averill Park and Poestenkill are places in New York. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Averill Park has the higher population (1,604 vs 828 in Poestenkill). Averill Park has the higher median household income ($114,821 vs $94,891 in Poestenkill). Averill Park has the higher median home value ($250,000 vs $247,900 in Poestenkill).

Population, income & housing

	Averill Park	Poestenkill
Population	1,604	828
Median age	54.0 yrs	50.8 yrs
Median household income	$114,821	$94,891
Median home value	$250,000	$247,900
Median gross rent	$1,429	$1,053
Housing units	859	366
Homeownership rate	79.1%	81.8%
Bachelor's degree or higher	38.5%	32.4%
Unemployment rate	2.7%	0.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Averill Park	Poestenkill
Population	1,228 → 1,604 (+30.6%)	959 → 828 (-13.7%)
Median household income	$92,857 → $114,821 (+23.7%)	$79,286 → $94,891 (+19.7%)
Median home value	$228,000 → $250,000 (+9.6%)	$186,300 → $247,900 (+33.1%)
Median gross rent	$1,076 → $1,429 (+32.8%)	$693 → $1,053 (+51.9%)

Averill Park

Population

1,2281,604

Median household income

$92,857$114,821

Median home value

$228,000$250,000

Median gross rent

$1,076$1,429

Poestenkill

Population

959828

Median household income

$79,286$94,891

Median home value

$186,300$247,900

Median gross rent

$693$1,053

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Averill Park	Poestenkill
Under 5	5.6%	3.5%
5 to 17	5.6%	11.1%
18 to 24	5.2%	7.1%
25 to 34	7.7%	7.6%
35 to 44	7.1%	8.0%
45 to 54	21.1%	22.1%
55 to 64	25.4%	16.1%
65 to 74	14.4%	13.3%
75 and over	7.9%	11.2%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Averill Park	Poestenkill
White (non-Hispanic)	97.0%	94.3%
Black or African American	0.0%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.2%	2.2%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	0.0%	3.5%
Hispanic or Latino	2.8%	0.0%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Averill Park	Poestenkill
No high school diploma	1.8%	2.9%
High school graduate	30.0%	43.4%
Some college or associate's	29.8%	21.3%
Bachelor's degree	20.4%	21.1%
Graduate or professional degree	18.0%	11.3%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Averill Park	Poestenkill
Drove alone	81.4%	73.2%
Carpooled	3.3%	7.0%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	1.7%	1.9%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	13.6%	17.8%
Other means	0.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Averill Park	Poestenkill
1-unit, detached	61.8%	79.0%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	18.2%	13.1%
5 to 19 units	1.7%	7.9%
20 or more units	8.3%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	10.0%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Averill Park	Poestenkill
Poverty rate	4.5%	11.2%
Average household size	2.00	2.44
Mean commute (minutes)	25	26
Median year structure built	1965	1951