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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

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Canterbury is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-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 is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Canterbury, the average commute to work is 33.84 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Canterbury does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The education level of Canterbury citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 23.85% of adults in Canterbury 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

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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.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

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

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 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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