Wilton is a somewhat small town located in the state of Connecticut. With a population of 17,633 people and four constituent neighborhoods, Wilton is the 65th largest community in Connecticut.

Wilton is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 94.65% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Wilton is a town of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wilton who work in management occupations (25.94%), sales jobs (13.53%), and business and financial occupations (11.75%).

Of important note, Wilton is also a town of artists. Wilton has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Wilton's character.

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

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.37% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

In addition, Wilton is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates," which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.

Because of many things, Wilton 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, Wilton really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Wilton 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 Wilton, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 39.25 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Wilton Information and Demographics

If knowledge is power, Wilton is a pretty powerful place. 70.73% of the adults in Wilton have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 14.96% for all cities and towns.

The per capita income in Wilton in 2000 was $65,806, which is wealthy relative to Connecticut and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $263,224 for a family of four. However, Wilton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Wilton is English.