North Hero - Alburgh is a very small town located in the state of Vermont. With a population of 3,628 people and just one neighborhood, North Hero - Alburgh is the 60th largest community in Vermont.
Unlike some towns, North Hero - Alburgh isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in North Hero - Alburgh are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, North Hero - Alburgh is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in North Hero - Alburgh who work in management occupations (14.41%), teaching (12.99%), and office and administrative support (12.31%).
A relatively large number of people in North Hero - Alburgh telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.89% 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 North Hero - Alburgh is an extremely popular vacation destination. A significant portion of the population is seasonal. During the vacation season, the town experiences a large influx of people who take up residence in second homes they own in the area. As the vacation season ends, the population drops again, leaving behind a substantially quieter and smaller town.
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, North Hero - Alburgh has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes North Hero - Alburgh a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in North Hero - Alburgh, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.30 minutes every day commuting to work.
The citizens of North Hero - Alburgh are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 36.33% of adults in North Hero - Alburgh have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in North Hero - Alburgh in 2022 was $44,572, which is upper middle income relative to Vermont, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $178,288 for a family of four. However, North Hero - Alburgh contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call North Hero - Alburgh home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of North Hero - Alburgh residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in North Hero - Alburgh include English, Irish, French, French Canadian, and German.
The most common language spoken in North Hero - Alburgh is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and French.
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.
Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 49.0%, which is higher than 98.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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, 12.1% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 15.1% have French 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 North Hero - Alburgh are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 53.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 56.8% 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, 42.1% 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 25.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.2%), and 15.8% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
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 94.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and French.
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 North Hero - Alburgh, VT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (18.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.6%), and residents who report French roots (15.1%), and some of the residents are also of French Canadian ancestry (12.1%), along with some German ancestry residents (7.3%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (33.4% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (82.5%) 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 (6.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.