Silt is a very small town located in the state of Colorado. With a population of 3,697 people and just one neighborhood, Silt is the 104th largest community in Colorado. Much of the housing stock in Silt was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Silt economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Silt, where the median household income is $72,450.00.
Housing costs in Silt are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in Colorado.
Unlike some towns, Silt isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Silt are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Silt is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Silt who work in sales jobs (14.65%), office and administrative support (11.66%), and maintenance occupations (9.03%).
In Silt, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 34.17 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
The percentage of adults in Silt who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.65% of the adults in Silt have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Silt in 2022 was $31,181, which is lower middle income relative to Colorado, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $124,724 for a family of four. However, Silt contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Silt is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Silt home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Silt residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Silt also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 39.81% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Silt include German, Polish, English, Irish, and French.
Silt also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 21.28%.
The most common language spoken in Silt is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
With a real estate vacancy rate of only 0.0%, the neighborhood has a lower vacancy rate than 100.0% of U.S. neighborhoods, a very elite group. Such a low vacancy rate may indicate very strong real estate demand in the neighborhood combined with some impediments to increasing supply, such as zoning or existing density of development, among other potential reasons.
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 38 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.2% of America.
Significantly, 6.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.1% 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 Silt are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 61.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.5% 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 66.2% 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, 31.9% 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 29.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (27.2%), and 11.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 77.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Silt, CO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (19.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (16.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.1%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.8%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (4.4%), among others. In addition, 14.7% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (37.5% 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 (17.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.