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Fort Duchesne is a tiny town located in the state of Utah. With a population of 546 people and just one neighborhood, Fort Duchesne is the 145th largest community in Utah.
Occupations and Workforce
Fort Duchesne is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 86.89% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Fort Duchesne is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fort Duchesne who work in office and administrative support (30.33%), sales jobs (20.49%), and management occupations (16.39%).
Setting & Lifestyle
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, Fort Duchesne has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Fort Duchesne a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One of the benefits of Fort Duchesne is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.69 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Fort Duchesne 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.
Demographics
Fort Duchesne ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 4.46% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Fort Duchesne in 2022 was $46,984, which is wealthy relative to Utah and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $187,936 for a family of four. However, Fort Duchesne contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Fort Duchesne also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 50.13% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Fort Duchesne is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Fort Duchesne home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fort Duchesne residents report their race to be Native American, followed by White. Fort Duchesne also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 21.87% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Fort Duchesne include Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, U.S. Virgin Islander, and Trinidadian and Tobagonian.
The most common language spoken in Fort Duchesne is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Native American languages.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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.
Real Estate
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 2 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 99.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American and English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 18.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 25.2% have English ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 22.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.9% 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 Fort Duchesne are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.6% of U.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, 32.2% 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 29.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.7%), and 14.6% 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 88.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages 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 Fort Duchesne, UT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (25.2%). There are also a number of people of Native American ancestry (18.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.4%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (6.1%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (5.4%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (70.0%) 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 (15.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
