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Sprague, CT

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Overview


Sprague is a very small town located in the state of Connecticut. With a population of 2,940 people and just one neighborhood, Sprague is the 150th largest community in Connecticut. Sprague 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, Sprague is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Sprague is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sprague who work in management occupations (11.21%), office and administrative support (10.75%), and sales jobs (10.16%).

Of important note, Sprague is also a town of artists. Sprague has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Sprague’s character.

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Sprague’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

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

One downside of living in Sprague, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.28 minutes every day commuting to work.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Sprague who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.96% of the adults in Sprague have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Sprague in 2022 was $40,239, which is low income relative to Connecticut, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $160,956 for a family of four. However, Sprague contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Sprague, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

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, 10.5% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 4.1% have French Canadian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 18.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.6% 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 Sprague are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 65.3% of the neighborhoods in America. With 17.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 65.8% of U.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, 35.5% 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 25.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.9%), and 14.0% 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 93.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

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 Sprague, CT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (12.1%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (10.5%), and residents who report Puerto Rican roots (8.7%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (8.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (8.1%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (88.0%) 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 (5.1%) . 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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