Greensboro - Glover is a very small town located in the state of Vermont. With a population of 1,945 people and just one neighborhood, Greensboro - Glover is the 117th largest community in Vermont. Greensboro - Glover has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Greensboro - Glover is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Greensboro - Glover is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Greensboro - Glover who work in management occupations (17.04%), teaching (10.41%), and office and administrative support (8.28%).
Of important note, Greensboro - Glover is also a town of artists. Greensboro - Glover has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Greensboro - Glover’s character.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 12.17% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
Another notable thing is that Greensboro - Glover is a major vacation destination. Much of the town’s population is seasonal: many people own second homes and only live there part-time, during the vacation season. The effect on the local economy is that many of the businesses are dependent on tourist dollars, and may operate only during the high season. As the vacation season ends, Greensboro - Glover’s population drops significantly, such that year-round residents will notice that the city is a much quieter place to live.
Because of many things, Greensboro - Glover is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Greensboro - Glover 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, Greensboro - Glover has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Greensboro - Glover’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, Greensboro - Glover has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Greensboro - Glover a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Greensboro - Glover, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.72 minutes every day commuting to work.
Greensboro - Glover is one of the most well-educated cities in the nation. 43.54% of adults in Greensboro - Glover 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 Greensboro - Glover in 2022 was $40,089, which is lower middle income relative to Vermont, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $160,356 for a family of four. However, Greensboro - Glover contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Greensboro - Glover home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Greensboro - Glover residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Greensboro - Glover include English, Irish, French, French Canadian, and German.
The most common language spoken in Greensboro - Glover is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Greensboro - Glover, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 50.4%, which is higher than 98.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
In addition, 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 26 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.6% of America.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 3.6% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 95.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French Canadian and French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 9.6% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 14.0% have French ancestry.
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 Greensboro - Glover are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.2% 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 51.9% 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, 47.6% 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 20.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.0%), and 10.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.9% of households.
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 Greensboro - Glover, VT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (18.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.0%), and residents who report French roots (14.0%), and some of the residents are also of French Canadian ancestry (9.6%), along with some German ancestry residents (8.0%), 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 (28.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (70.8%) 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 (9.5%) and 7.2% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.