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Mount Holly - Wallingford, VT

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Overview


Mount Holly - Wallingford is a very small town located in the state of Vermont. With a population of 3,504 people and just one neighborhood, Mount Holly - Wallingford is the 63rd largest community in Vermont.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Mount Holly - Wallingford isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Mount Holly - Wallingford are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Mount Holly - Wallingford is a town of professionals, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Holly - Wallingford who work in management occupations (10.61%), teaching (8.80%), and office and administrative support (7.11%).

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Mount Holly - Wallingford has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Mount Holly - Wallingford has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Mount Holly - Wallingford than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Mount Holly - Wallingford may be for you.

As is often the case in a small town, Mount Holly - Wallingford doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The education level of Mount Holly - Wallingford citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 35.18% of adults in Mount Holly - Wallingford have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Mount Holly - Wallingford in 2018 was $33,996, which is low income relative to Vermont, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $135,984 for a family of four. However, Mount Holly - Wallingford contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Mount Holly - Wallingford is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Real Estate

Vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 34.6% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 96.3% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.

In addition, uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 38 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 91.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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, 7.3% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 1.1% have Canadian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 12.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.6% 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 Mount Holly - Wallingford are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 50.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 11.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.9% 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, 40.8% 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 31.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.2%), and 12.0% 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 98.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

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 Mount Holly - Wallingford, VT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (19.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.3%), and residents who report German roots (11.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (8.1%), along with some French Canadian ancestry residents (7.3%), 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 (45.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (85.9%) 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 (6.7%) . 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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