Hebron, CT

About Hebron

Hebron is a somewhat small town located in the state of Connecticut. With a population of 8,610 people and just one neighborhood, Hebron is the 104th largest community in Connecticut.

Hebron is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 85.24% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Hebron is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hebron who work in sales jobs (12.76%), office and administrative support jobs (12.74%), and management occupations (11.50%).

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

Because of many things, Hebron is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Hebron a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town's good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Hebron has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Hebron's overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

Hebron is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Hebron, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 97.34% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

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

Hebron Information and Demographics

The citizens of Hebron are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 42.96% of adults in Hebron have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Hebron in 2000 was $30,797, which is upper middle income relative to Connecticut, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $123,188 for a family of four. However, Hebron contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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