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Canterbury, CT

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Overview


Canterbury is a somewhat small town located in the state of Connecticut. With a population of 5,102 people and just one neighborhood, Canterbury is the 130th largest community in Connecticut.

Occupations and Workforce

Canterbury is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Canterbury is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Canterbury who work in management occupations (16.52%), office and administrative support (11.18%), and healthcare (8.10%).

Also of interest is that Canterbury 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: 10.27% 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, Canterbury is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Canterbury 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, Canterbury has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Canterbury’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

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!) Canterbury 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. Canterbury has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Canterbury than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Canterbury may be for you.

One downside of living in Canterbury, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.84 minutes every day commuting to work.

As is often the case in a small town, Canterbury doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The population of Canterbury overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Canterbury, 23.85% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Canterbury in 2022 was $45,668, which is lower middle income relative to Connecticut, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $182,672 for a family of four.

Canterbury is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Canterbury home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Canterbury residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Canterbury include French, Irish, English, German, and French Canadian.

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

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.

Diversity

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, 11.4% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 15.4% have French ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 12.1% 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 98.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Canterbury are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 73.4% 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 66.3% of America's neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 44.9% 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 21.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.2%), and 14.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 90.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Canterbury, CT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (15.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.2%), and residents who report English roots (13.8%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (12.7%), along with some French Canadian ancestry residents (11.4%), 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 (37.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (86.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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