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New Hartford, CT

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Overview


New Hartford is a somewhat small town located in the state of Connecticut. With a population of 6,698 people and just one neighborhood, New Hartford is the 120th largest community in Connecticut.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, New Hartford is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, New Hartford is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in New Hartford who work in management occupations (14.85%), sales jobs (12.10%), and office and administrative support (9.09%).

Of important note, New Hartford is also a town of artists. New Hartford has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape New Hartford’s character.

Also of interest is that New Hartford 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: 10.52% 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

Because of many things, New Hartford is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making New Hartford 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, New Hartford has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, New Hartford’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

One downside of living in New Hartford is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In New Hartford, the average commute to work is 36.25 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

New Hartford is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

New Hartford is one of the most well-educated cities in the nation. 44.09% of adults in New Hartford have at least a bachelor's degree. Compare that to the average community in America, which has just 21.84% with a bachelor's degree or higher.

The per capita income in New Hartford in 2022 was $67,456, which is wealthy relative to Connecticut and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $269,824 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in New Hartford is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Korean.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

People

Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Italian and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 21.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Italian ancestry and 3.6% have French Canadian ancestry.

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 New Hartford are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 77.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% 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 100.0% of America's neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 48.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 23.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (17.5%), and 10.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.6%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in New Hartford, CT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (22.3%), and residents who report Italian roots (21.9%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (14.0%), along with some French ancestry residents (7.1%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (85.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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