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Duxbury - Moretown, VT

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Overview


Duxbury - Moretown is a very small town located in the state of Vermont. With a population of 3,206 people and just one neighborhood, Duxbury - Moretown is the 71st largest community in Vermont.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Duxbury - Moretown isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Duxbury - Moretown are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Duxbury - Moretown is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Duxbury - Moretown who work in management occupations (12.84%), office and administrative support (9.41%), and teaching (7.64%).

Of important note, Duxbury - Moretown is also a town of artists. Duxbury - Moretown has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Duxbury - Moretown’s character.

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

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 18.71% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Duxbury - Moretown is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Duxbury - Moretown really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Duxbury - Moretown perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

Being a small town, Duxbury - Moretown does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

Do you have a 4-year college degree or graduate degree? If so, you may feel right at home in Duxbury - Moretown. 56.26% of adults here have a 4-year degree or graduate degree, whereas the national average for all cities and towns is just 21.84%.

The per capita income in Duxbury - Moretown in 2022 was $49,813, which is upper middle income relative to Vermont, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $199,252 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Duxbury - Moretown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Russian.

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.

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 6.2% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Vermont. 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.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 91.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 11.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry and 7.2% have French Canadian 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 Duxbury - Moretown are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 73.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.5% 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 76.6% of America'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, 49.8% 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 20.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.7%), and 12.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Duxbury - Moretown, VT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (26.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (20.3%), and residents who report German roots (12.6%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (11.3%), along with some French ancestry residents (9.6%), 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 (34.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (73.2%) 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 (5.7%) . 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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