Newark - Sutton is a very small town located in the state of Vermont. With a population of 4,147 people and just one neighborhood, Newark - Sutton is the 48th largest community in Vermont.
Unlike some towns, Newark - Sutton isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Newark - Sutton are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Newark - Sutton is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Newark - Sutton who work in sales jobs (10.44%), management occupations (9.07%), and office and administrative support (8.66%).
A relatively large number of people in Newark - Sutton telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 13.14% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Another notable thing is that Newark - Sutton is an extremely popular destination for tourists and seasonal residents. So much of the population is seasonal such that the town’s population swells significantly during the vacation season, and drops again when the season ends. Because of this, much of the local economy is centered around tourism; some businesses may be operated only during the high season. During the low season, year-round residents will notice that the city is a substantially quieter place to live.
Because of many things, Newark - Sutton is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Newark - Sutton a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Newark - Sutton has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Newark - Sutton’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, Newark - Sutton has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Newark - Sutton a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Newark - Sutton, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.11 minutes every day commuting to work.
The overall education level of Newark - Sutton is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 26.33% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Newark - Sutton in 2022 was $34,779, which is lower middle income relative to Vermont, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $139,116 for a family of four. However, Newark - Sutton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Newark - Sutton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Newark - Sutton residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Newark - Sutton include English, French, French Canadian, Irish, and German.
The most common language spoken in Newark - Sutton is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and French.
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 Newark - Sutton, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 21 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.6% 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.
In addition, vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 34.6% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 96.3% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French Canadian and French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 10.2% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 11.8% have French ancestry.
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 Newark - Sutton are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.7% 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 65.7% 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, 30.3% 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 29.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.4%), and 13.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.9% of households.
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 Newark - Sutton, VT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (17.8%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (11.8%), and residents who report French Canadian roots (10.2%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (9.5%), along with some German ancestry residents (8.2%), 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 (33.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (71.1%) 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 (13.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.