Barton is a very small town located in the state of Vermont. With a population of 2,826 people and just one neighborhood, Barton is the 80th largest community in Vermont. Much of the housing stock in Barton was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Barton is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Barton is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Barton who work in teaching (16.43%), healthcare (14.66%), and office and administrative support (13.10%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 11.04% 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.
It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Barton 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. Barton has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Barton than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Barton may be for you.
Barton 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.
The education level of Barton citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 29.60% of adults in Barton have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Barton in 2022 was $29,890, which is low income relative to Vermont, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $119,560 for a family of four. However, Barton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Barton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Barton residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Barton include English, Irish, French, French Canadian, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Barton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and French.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French Canadian and French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 10.2% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 12.5% have French 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 Barton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.4% 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 54.8% of America'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, 49.2% 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 19.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.9%), and 15.5% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.6% of households. Some people also speak Italian (4.4%).
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 Barton, VT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (17.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.4%), and residents who report French roots (12.5%), and some of the residents are also of French Canadian ancestry (10.2%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (6.9%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.6%) 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.