Byers - Deer Trail is a somewhat small town located in the state of Colorado. With a population of 6,644 people and just one neighborhood, Byers - Deer Trail is the 79th largest community in Colorado. Much of the housing stock in Byers - Deer Trail was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Byers - Deer Trail economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Byers - Deer Trail, where the median household income is $101,705.00.
Housing costs in Byers - Deer Trail are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in Colorado.
Unlike some towns, Byers - Deer Trail isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Byers - Deer Trail are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Byers - Deer Trail is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Byers - Deer Trail who work in office and administrative support (12.97%), management occupations (12.54%), and sales jobs (6.70%).
Also of interest is that Byers - Deer Trail has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 14.45% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
One downside of living in Byers - Deer Trail is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Byers - Deer Trail, the average commute to work is 39.61 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Byers - Deer Trail does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Byers - Deer Trail overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Byers - Deer Trail, 22.10% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Byers - Deer Trail in 2022 was $42,512, which is middle income relative to Colorado, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $170,048 for a family of four. However, Byers - Deer Trail contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Byers - Deer Trail is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Byers - Deer Trail home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Byers - Deer Trail residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Byers - Deer Trail also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 21.74% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Byers - Deer Trail include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Byers - Deer Trail is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Byers - Deer Trail, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 45.2% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 99.2% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
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 14 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.2% of America.
With 1.5% of employed workers living in the neighborhood active in the military, this neighborhood has the distinction of having a higher proportion of people in the military than 95.0% of American neighborhoods. This is a major shaper of the neighborhood's culture and character.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish 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 Byers - Deer Trail are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 72.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 36.3% 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 27.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.3%), and 17.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 91.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Byers - Deer Trail, CO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.9%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (16.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (9.7%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (4.9%), among others.
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 between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (45.1% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (72.9%) 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 (10.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.