About Shelburne

Shelburne is a somewhat small town located in the state of Vermont. With a population of 6,944 people and just one neighborhood, Shelburne is the 26th largest community in Vermont.

Shelburne is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 90.95% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Shelburne is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Shelburne who work in sales jobs (14.13%), office and administrative support jobs (13.90%), and management occupations (13.14%).

In addition, Shelburne 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, Shelburne 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, Shelburne really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Shelburne 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.

Shelburne is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Shelburne Information and Demographics

If knowledge is power, Shelburne is a pretty powerful place. 58.95% of the adults in Shelburne 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 Shelburne in 2000 was $37,210, which is wealthy relative to Vermont and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $148,840 for a family of four. However, Shelburne contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Shelburne is English.