Barnard - Pomfret is a very small town located in the state of Vermont. With a population of 4,222 people and just one neighborhood, Barnard - Pomfret is the 45th largest community in Vermont.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Barnard - Pomfret is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Barnard - Pomfret is a town of professionals, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Barnard - Pomfret who work in management occupations (14.43%), teaching (10.77%), and sales jobs (8.98%).
Also of interest is that Barnard - Pomfret has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in Barnard - Pomfret telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 11.90% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Because of many things, Barnard - Pomfret is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Barnard - Pomfret a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Barnard - Pomfret has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Barnard - Pomfret’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
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, Barnard - Pomfret has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Barnard - Pomfret a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Barnard - Pomfret is one of the most well-educated cities in the nation. 43.31% of adults in Barnard - Pomfret have at least a bachelor's degree. Compare that to the average community in America, which has just 21.84% with a bachelor's degree or higher.
The per capita income in Barnard - Pomfret in 2022 was $44,523, which is upper middle income relative to Vermont, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $178,092 for a family of four. However, Barnard - Pomfret contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Barnard - Pomfret home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Barnard - Pomfret residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Barnard - Pomfret include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Barnard - Pomfret is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and French.
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.
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 24 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.9% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
If you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 15.0% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of Vermont. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more English and Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 26.6% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry and 7.1% have Scottish 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 Barnard - Pomfret are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 57.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.6% 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 69.3% 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, 43.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 26.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (18.1%), and 11.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.3% of households. Some people also speak Polish (4.4%).
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 Barnard - Pomfret, VT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (26.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.2%), and residents who report German roots (12.8%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (7.1%), along with some French ancestry residents (6.2%), 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 (42.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (76.0%) 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 (9.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.