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Byers - Deer Trail, CO

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Overview


Byers - Deer Trail is a somewhat small town located in the state of Colorado. With a population of 6,431 people and just one neighborhood, Byers - Deer Trail is the 79th largest community in Colorado.

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.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Byers - Deer Trail is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Byers - Deer Trail is a town of construction workers and builders, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Byers - Deer Trail who work in office and administrative support (11.53%), management occupations (11.03%), and healthcare suport services (7.85%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 10.12% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Byers - Deer Trail is a good choice for families with children because of several factors. Many other families with children live here, making it a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic success. Many people own their own single-family homes, providing areas for children to play and stability in the community. Finally, Byers - Deer Trail’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

One downside of living in Byers - Deer Trail, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 40.47 minutes every day commuting to work.

As is often the case in a small town, Byers - Deer Trail doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Byers - Deer Trail is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 20.41% of adults 25 and older in Byers - Deer Trail have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Byers - Deer Trail in 2022 was $39,299, 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 $157,196 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 17.49% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Byers - Deer Trail include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Swedish.

The most common language spoken in Byers - Deer Trail is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Car Ownership

American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 50.0% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 99.6% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Real Estate

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.

Diversity

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, 3.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 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 74.3% of the neighborhoods in America. With 12.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 55.4% 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, 33.3% 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 32.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.4%), and 14.9% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

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 95.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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 Byers - Deer Trail, CO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.3%), and residents who report Mexican roots (13.3%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (12.1%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (6.2%), 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 between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (45.9% 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 (5.5%) . 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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