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Proctor, VT

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Overview


Proctor is a very small town located in the state of Vermont. With a population of 1,727 people and just one neighborhood, Proctor is the 123rd largest community in Vermont. Proctor has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Proctor is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Proctor is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Proctor who work in office and administrative support (14.69%), sales jobs (7.81%), and business and financial occupations (7.58%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Proctor has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Proctor has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Proctor than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Proctor may be for you.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Proctor who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 26.08% of adults in Proctor have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Proctor in 2018 was $31,546, which is low income relative to Vermont, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $126,184 for a family of four. However, Proctor contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Proctor home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Proctor residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Proctor include Irish, English, Italian, German, and French.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

Do you watch 'This Old House' on Public Television? Do you love the idea of fixing up a Colonial or Victorian era home, complete with the charm of yesteryear? Do you like to stroll or drive streets lined with gracious older residences? If you found yourself nodding yes to any of these questions, you are going to be interested in this unique neighborhood. The neighborhood stands out on a national scale for the sheer concentration of historic residences it contains: 62.2% of the residential real estate here was built from 1939 or earlier, some much earlier. This is a greater concentration of historic homes than 97.0% of the neighborhoods in the United States.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more French and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.8% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 2.5% have French Canadian ancestry.

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 Proctor are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 40.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.5% 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 80.0% 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, 35.4% 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 30.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.0%), and 14.6% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.2% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Proctor, VT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (19.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (17.5%), and residents who report Italian roots (11.7%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (9.9%), along with some French 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 (53.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.9%) 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 (5.9%) . 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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