Frenchtown is a very small town located in the state of Montana. With a population of 1,958 people and just one neighborhood, Frenchtown is the 52nd largest community in Montana.
Frenchtown is a blue-collar town, with 35.49% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Frenchtown is a town of construction workers and builders, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Frenchtown who work in management occupations (15.93%), sales jobs (12.46%), and healthcare (12.15%).
Frenchtown is a good choice for families with children because of several factors. Many other families with children live here, making it a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic success. Many people own their own single-family homes, providing areas for children to play and stability in the community. Finally, Frenchtown’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Frenchtown has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Frenchtown a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Frenchtown, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.93 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Frenchtown is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In terms of college education, Frenchtown is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 28.44% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Frenchtown in 2022 was $35,182, which is upper middle income relative to Montana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $140,728 for a family of four. However, Frenchtown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Frenchtown is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Frenchtown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Frenchtown residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Frenchtown include Irish, German, English, French, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Frenchtown is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Slavic languages.
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.
If you are an executive or professional seeking a neighborhood affording an executive lifestyle, or just wanting to find where other executives live in the area, the neighborhood should be on your list. It has an enviable mix of spacious homes, relatively stable real estate values, and residents that include a number of wealthy executives, managers, and professionals. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis places it as one of the top 11.6% executive lifestyle neighborhoods in the state of Montana.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Ukrainian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Ukrainian ancestry.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Frenchtown are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 70.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.7% 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 72.4% 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, 40.6% 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 25.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.5%), and 10.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.0% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.6%).
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 Frenchtown, MT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.1%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (4.6%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (4.5%), among others.
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 (46.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.0%) 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 (8.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.