Royalton is a very small town located in the state of Vermont. With a population of 2,770 people and just one neighborhood, Royalton is the 88th largest community in Vermont.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Royalton is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Royalton is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Royalton who work in sales jobs (13.50%), teaching (12.42%), and office and administrative support (10.79%).
A relatively large number of people in Royalton telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 15.13% 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.
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!) Royalton 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. Royalton has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Royalton than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Royalton may be for you.
The education level of Royalton citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 37.86% of adults in Royalton have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Royalton in 2022 was $59,352, which is wealthy relative to Vermont and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $237,408 for a family of four. However, Royalton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Royalton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Royalton residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Royalton include English, Irish, French, Italian, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Royalton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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 Royalton, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
In the neighborhood, walking to work is a real option for many. In fact, NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research reveals walking to and from work is the chosen way to commute for 10.5% of residents here. This is a higher proportion of walking commuters than we found in 95.2% of American neighborhoods. Get ready to put on your walking shoes if you move here!
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 3.9% have French Canadian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Royalton are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 73.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.1% 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 70.5% 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, 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 21.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (19.7%), and 15.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.6% of households. Some people also speak Polish (3.2%).
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 Royalton, VT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (16.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.6%), and residents who report French roots (9.1%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (8.8%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (5.4%), 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 (37.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (67.6%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (10.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.