Fort Duchesne is a tiny town located in the state of Utah. With a population of 546 people and just one neighborhood, Fort Duchesne is the 145th largest community in Utah.
Unlike some towns, Fort Duchesne isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Fort Duchesne are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Fort Duchesne is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fort Duchesne who work in office and administrative support (28.89%), sales jobs (22.22%), and management occupations (11.11%).
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, Fort Duchesne is worth considering.
One of the benefits of Fort Duchesne is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 17.23 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
As is often the case in a small town, Fort Duchesne doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Fort Duchesne has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 4.55% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Fort Duchesne in 2022 was $24,739, which is low income relative to Utah, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $98,956 for a family of four. However, Fort Duchesne contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Fort Duchesne also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 47.67% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Fort Duchesne is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Fort Duchesne home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fort Duchesne residents report their race to be Native American, followed by White. Fort Duchesne also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 24.15% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Fort Duchesne include Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, U.S. Virgin Islander, and Trinidadian and Tobagonian.
The most common language spoken in Fort Duchesne is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Native American languages.
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.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 2 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 99.1% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American and English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 21.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 26.5% have English ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 22.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Fort Duchesne are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 22.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.8% 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, 31.5% 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 29.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.1%), and 13.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 89.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Spanish.
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 Fort Duchesne, UT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (26.5%). There are also a number of people of Native American ancestry (21.7%), and residents who report Mexican roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (6.7%), along with some German ancestry residents (6.5%), among others.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (71.6%) 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 (13.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.