Clarendon is a very small town located in the state of Vermont. With a population of 2,407 people and just one neighborhood, Clarendon is the 102nd largest community in Vermont.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Clarendon is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Clarendon is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Clarendon who work in office and administrative support (12.22%), food service (11.50%), and sales jobs (9.97%).
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Clarendon has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Clarendon a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
As is often the case in a small town, Clarendon doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Clarendon is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 25.65% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Clarendon in 2018 was $33,302, which is lower middle income relative to Vermont, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $133,208 for a family of four. However, Clarendon contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Clarendon home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Clarendon residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Clarendon include Irish, English, French, Italian, and German.
The most common language spoken in Clarendon is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and French.
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 Clarendon, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Belgian and French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Belgian ancestry and 10.5% have French ancestry.
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 Clarendon are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 43.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.2% 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 58.6% 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, 31.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 28.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.7%), and 14.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.2% of households. Some people also speak Polish (5.1%).
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 Clarendon, VT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (22.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (17.5%), and residents who report French roots (10.5%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (10.1%), along with some German ancestry residents (8.0%), among others.
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 (51.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.5%) 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 (8.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.