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Kenton, DE

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Overview


Kenton is a tiny town located in the state of Delaware. With a population of 220 people and just one neighborhood, Kenton is the 42nd largest community in Delaware. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Kenton, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Kenton, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Kenton’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Kenton does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $50,804.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Kenton is a blue-collar town, with 36.14% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Kenton is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Kenton who work in office and administrative support (27.71%), law enforcement and fire fighting (18.07%), and management occupations (4.82%).

Also of interest is that Kenton has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

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

One downside of living in Kenton, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.50 minutes every day commuting to work.

Kenton 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

In terms of college education, Kenton is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 33.33% of adults in Kenton have a college degree.

The per capita income in Kenton in 2022 was $13,531, which is low income relative to Delaware and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $54,124 for a family of four.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 10.0% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Delaware. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Greek and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Greek ancestry and 3.7% have Dutch ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.9% 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 97.4% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Kenton are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 55.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 18.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.7% of U.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, 31.4% 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 31.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.2%), and 17.6% 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 88.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian, Spanish, Polish and Chinese.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Kenton, DE, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (16.0%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (10.7%), and residents who report English roots (10.1%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (9.7%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (7.8%), 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 (42.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (83.3%) 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 (10.1%) . 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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