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Chaplin, CT

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Overview


Chaplin is a very small town located in the state of Connecticut. With a population of 2,156 people and just one neighborhood, Chaplin is the 157th largest community in Connecticut.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Chaplin isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Chaplin are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Chaplin is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Chaplin who work in office and administrative support (14.18%), management occupations (13.87%), and teaching (12.40%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 13.60% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

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

In Chaplin, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.42 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Demographics

The citizens of Chaplin are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.10% of adults in Chaplin having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Chaplin in 2018 was $36,572, which is low income relative to Connecticut, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $146,288 for a family of four. However, Chaplin contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Chaplin is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Chaplin home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Chaplin residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Chaplin include Irish, English, French, French Canadian, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Chaplin is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Chaplin, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

The neighborhood stands out within Connecticut for its college student friendly environment. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood is home to a number of college students, is relatively walkable, and above average in safety. In combination, this makes it stand out for a good place for college students to consider. Because a number of college students live here, this neighborhood may be close to a college campus and offer certain amenities nearby geared towards the student body. While it's not an environment for everyone, ambitious scholars can enjoy seasonal excitement between semesters and school breaks, and parents can rest easy knowing that the area has an above average safety rating. For each of these reasons, the neighborhood is rated among the top 8.0% of college-friendly places to live in CT.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more French Canadian and Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 10.1% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 2.7% have Canadian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 11.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Chaplin are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 70.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.0% 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 65.3% 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, 36.6% 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 28.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.3%), and 16.6% 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 89.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish, Italian and Spanish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Chaplin, CT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (25.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (16.7%), and residents who report French roots (16.4%), and some of the residents are also of French Canadian ancestry (10.1%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (10.1%), 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 (36.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (75.0%) 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 (9.3%) . 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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