Burrillville is a medium-sized town located in the state of Rhode Island. With a population of 16,794 people and three associated neighborhoods, Burrillville is the 24th largest community in Rhode Island.Burrillville is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Burrillville is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Burrillville who work in management occupations (14.54%), office and administrative support (13.97%), and sales jobs (4.90%). Also of interest is that Burrillville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 11.46% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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. 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, Burrillville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Burrillville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. In Burrillville, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 35.71 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. The education level of Burrillville citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 24.99% of adults in Burrillville have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Burrillville in 2022 was $48,448, which is middle income relative to Rhode Island, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $193,792 for a family of four. However, Burrillville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Burrillville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Burrillville residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Burrillville include French, Irish, English, Italian, and French Canadian. The most common language spoken in Burrillville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
