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Beacon Falls, CT

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Overview


Beacon Falls is a somewhat small town located in the state of Connecticut. With a population of 6,126 people and just one neighborhood, Beacon Falls is the 123rd largest community in Connecticut.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Beacon Falls isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Beacon Falls are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Beacon Falls is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Beacon Falls who work in management occupations (13.57%), business and financial occupations (11.40%), and healthcare (11.38%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Beacon Falls is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Beacon Falls 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, Beacon Falls has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Beacon Falls’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

One downside of living in Beacon Falls, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.39 minutes every day commuting to work.

Demographics

The education level of Beacon Falls ranks among the highest in the nation. Of the 25-and-older adult population in Beacon Falls, 43.88% have at least a bachelor's degree. The typical US community has just 21.84% of its adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree.

The per capita income in Beacon Falls in 2018 was $56,398, which is middle income relative to Connecticut, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $225,592 for a family of four.

Beacon Falls is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Beacon Falls home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Beacon Falls residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Beacon Falls include Italian, Irish, English, German, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Beacon Falls is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

People

If you're nearing retirement age, or in retirement, the is an excellent choice for you to consider for top-quality retirement living. This neighborhood is rated by NeighborhoodScout as among the top 7.5% of retiree-friendly neighborhoods in Connecticut, combining peace and quiet, safety from crime, and offering diverse housing options from which retirees can choose. Maybe it's because of these amenities that a large proportion of the residents here are college educated seniors, mixed with other age groups. For these and other reasons, NeighborhoodScout identifies this neighborhood as a top-notch place to consider if you are thinking of or planning to retire in Connecticut.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian and Lithuanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry and 1.9% have Lithuanian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Beacon Falls are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 74.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.5% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 66.2% of America's neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 52.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 18.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.3%), and 12.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Polish and Greek.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Beacon Falls, CT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Italian (19.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (18.4%), and residents who report English roots (13.5%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (9.2%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (6.6%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (5.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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