Myton is a tiny city located in the state of Utah. With a population of 560 people and just one neighborhood, Myton is the 144th largest community in Utah.
Myton is a blue-collar town, with 40.48% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Myton is a city of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Myton who work in office and administrative support (15.24%), sales jobs (10.00%), and management occupations (10.00%).
It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Myton has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Myton has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Myton than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Myton may be for you.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Myton spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 18.12 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.
As is often the case in a small city, Myton doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Myton has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 1.24% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Myton in 2022 was $23,158, which is low income relative to Utah and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $92,632 for a family of four. However, Myton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Myton is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Myton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Myton residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Myton also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.53% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Myton include English, German, Irish, Norwegian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Myton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Native American languages.
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.
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 9 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.3% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Danish and English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Danish ancestry and 26.1% have English ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Myton are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 51.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 15.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.7% of U.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, 38.4% 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 28.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.6%), and 11.1% 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 96.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Spanish.
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 Myton, UT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (26.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (7.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.1%), and some of the residents are also of Danish ancestry (5.5%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (4.3%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.7%) 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 (7.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.