About Barkhamsted

Barkhamsted is a very small town located in the state of Connecticut. With a population of 3,494 people and just one neighborhood, Barkhamsted is the 143rd largest community in Connecticut.

Barkhamsted is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Barkhamsted is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Barkhamsted who work in office and administrative support jobs (11.49%), management occupations (10.68%), and sales jobs (10.12%).

Also of interest is that Barkhamsted has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

In addition, Barkhamsted is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are people who are both educated and wealthy, and thus tend to be older, richer, and more established than young professionals. "Urban sophisticates" is not just about being educated and well-off financially: it is a point of view and state of mind, one that you might call 'urbaneness.' But such people can and do regularly live in small towns, suburbs and rural areas, as well as in big cities. They read, support the arts and high-end shops, and love travel.

Because of many things, Barkhamsted 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, Barkhamsted really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Barkhamsted perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, 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 Barkhamsted is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Barkhamsted, the average commute to work is 30.80 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Barkhamsted is a very car-oriented town. 97.15% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Barkhamsted is a small town, and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Barkhamsted has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

Being a small town, Barkhamsted does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Barkhamsted Information and Demographics

The population of Barkhamsted is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 14.96% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 36.36% of adults in Barkhamsted have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Barkhamsted in 2000 was $28,961, which is middle income relative to Connecticut, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $115,844 for a family of four. However, Barkhamsted contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Barkhamsted home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Barkhamsted is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Barkhamsted include Irish, English, Italian, German, French Canadian, Polish, French, and Swedish.

The most common language spoken in Barkhamsted is English.