Overview Whitehall is a very small village located in the state of New York. With a population of 2,478 people and just one neighborhood, Whitehall is the 538th largest community in New York. Whitehall has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages. Occupations and Workforce Whitehall is a blue-collar town, with 36.38% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Whitehall is a village of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Whitehall who work in office and administrative support (10.91%), sales jobs (8.32%), and healthcare (8.00%). Setting & Lifestyle The village is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Whitehall has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Whitehall a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Whitehall is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day. Whitehall Demographics In Whitehall, just 12.19% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%. The per capita income in Whitehall in 2022 was $20,635, which is low income relative to New York and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $82,540 for a family of four. However, Whitehall contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Whitehall also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.52% of its population below the federal poverty line. Whitehall is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Whitehall home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Whitehall residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Whitehall include Irish, French, Italian, German, and English. The most common language spoken in Whitehall is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.