Drayton - St. Thomas is a very small town located in the state of North Dakota. With a population of 1,428 people and just one neighborhood, Drayton - St. Thomas is the 66th largest community in North Dakota.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Drayton - St. Thomas is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Drayton - St. Thomas is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Drayton - St. Thomas who work in office and administrative support (15.65%), management occupations (13.66%), and sales jobs (9.25%).
Drayton - St. Thomas 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.
The percentage of adults in Drayton - St. Thomas who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.30% of the adults in Drayton - St. Thomas have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Drayton - St. Thomas in 2022 was $50,534, which is wealthy relative to North Dakota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $202,136 for a family of four. However, Drayton - St. Thomas contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Drayton - St. Thomas home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Drayton - St. Thomas residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Drayton - St. Thomas include Norwegian, German, English, Polish, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Drayton - St. Thomas is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Russian.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
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 4 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.4% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 24.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 6.1% have Swedish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 12.4% 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 98.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Drayton - St. Thomas are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 55.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.5% 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 69.6% 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, 32.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 32.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.4%), and 15.4% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.7% of households. Some people also speak Polish (12.4%).
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 Drayton - St. Thomas, ND, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Norwegian (24.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (21.5%), and residents who report English roots (9.5%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (8.5%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (7.6%), among others.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (75.2%) 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 (12.0%) and 6.4% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.