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Danby - Mount Tabor, VT

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Overview


Danby - Mount Tabor is a very small town located in the state of Vermont. With a population of 1,490 people and just one neighborhood, Danby - Mount Tabor is the 131st largest community in Vermont.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Danby - Mount Tabor, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.40% of Danby - Mount Tabor’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Danby - Mount Tabor is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Danby - Mount Tabor who work in sales jobs (12.41%), office and administrative support (8.02%), and healthcare (7.26%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Danby - Mount Tabor is worth considering.

One downside of living in Danby - Mount Tabor, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.57 minutes every day commuting to work.

Demographics

The overall education level of Danby - Mount Tabor citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 29.65% of adults in Danby - Mount Tabor have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%.

The per capita income in Danby - Mount Tabor in 2022 was $36,729, which is lower middle income relative to Vermont, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $146,916 for a family of four. However, Danby - Mount Tabor contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Danby - Mount Tabor home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Danby - Mount Tabor residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Danby - Mount Tabor include Irish, English, Italian, German, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Danby - Mount Tabor is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 95.3% of the neighborhoods in 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.

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, 6.9% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 2.5% have French Canadian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 9.2% 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 97.5% 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 Danby - Mount Tabor are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.6% 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, 33.7% 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 32.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.4%), and 8.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.1% of households. Some people also speak Italian (9.2%).

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 Danby - Mount Tabor, VT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (19.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.7%), and residents who report Italian roots (8.8%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (8.6%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (8.0%), 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 (45.6% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (81.7%) 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 (9.5%) . 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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