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Eden - Waterville, VT

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Overview


Eden - Waterville is a very small town located in the state of Vermont. With a population of 2,356 people and just one neighborhood, Eden - Waterville is the 103rd largest community in Vermont.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Eden - Waterville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 38.93% of Eden - Waterville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Eden - Waterville is a town of construction workers and builders, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Eden - Waterville who work in management occupations (11.57%), sales jobs (6.74%), and office and administrative support (6.51%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

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, Eden - Waterville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Eden - Waterville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Eden - Waterville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 36.93 minutes every day commuting to work.

Eden - Waterville 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.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Eden - Waterville who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 25.58% of adults in Eden - Waterville have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Eden - Waterville in 2018 was $34,813, which is lower middle income relative to Vermont, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $139,252 for a family of four. However, Eden - Waterville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Eden - Waterville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian 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.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 21 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 94.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 85.0% of the neighborhoods in VT. 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 French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 13.4% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 11.5% have French 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 Eden - Waterville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 51.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.6% 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 54.3% of America'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, 36.8% 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 33.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.9%), and 11.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% of households. Some people also speak Italian (5.6%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Eden - Waterville, VT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (19.9%). There are also a number of people of French Canadian ancestry (13.4%), and residents who report English roots (13.4%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (11.5%), along with some German ancestry residents (7.3%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (34.9% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (84.3%) 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 (11.1%) . 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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