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Whitefield - Dalton, NH

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Overview


Whitefield - Dalton is a very small town located in the state of New Hampshire. With a population of 3,443 people and just one neighborhood, Whitefield - Dalton is the 119th largest community in New Hampshire.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Whitefield - Dalton isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Whitefield - Dalton are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Whitefield - Dalton is a town of professionals, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Whitefield - Dalton who work in office and administrative support (11.28%), management occupations (8.17%), and teaching (7.28%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Whitefield - Dalton’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Whitefield - Dalton is worth considering.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Whitefield - Dalton who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 26.24% of adults in Whitefield - Dalton have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Whitefield - Dalton in 2018 was $30,798, which is low income relative to New Hampshire, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $123,192 for a family of four. However, Whitefield - Dalton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Whitefield - Dalton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Whitefield - Dalton residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Whitefield - Dalton include Irish, English, French, French Canadian, and German.

The most common language spoken in Whitefield - Dalton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and French.

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

With a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 85.1% of the neighborhoods in NH. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more French Canadian and Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 9.5% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 6.8% have Scottish ancestry.

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 Whitefield - Dalton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 33.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 30.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.1%), and 15.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.4% of households. Some people also speak Italian (5.5%).

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 Whitefield - Dalton, NH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (19.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (16.3%), and residents who report French roots (12.0%), and some of the residents are also of French Canadian ancestry (9.5%), along with some German ancestry residents (9.1%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.0%) 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 (12.0%) . 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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