Berkshire - Enosburgh is a very small town located in the state of Vermont. With a population of 4,428 people and just one neighborhood, Berkshire - Enosburgh is the 39th largest community in Vermont.
Berkshire - Enosburgh is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Berkshire - Enosburgh is a town of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Berkshire - Enosburgh who work in management occupations (14.57%), sales jobs (9.52%), and office and administrative support (7.45%).
Also of interest is that Berkshire - Enosburgh 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: 11.03% 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.
Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Berkshire - Enosburgh is worth considering.
Being a small town, Berkshire - Enosburgh does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Berkshire - Enosburgh overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Berkshire - Enosburgh, 21.67% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Berkshire - Enosburgh in 2022 was $31,159, which is low income relative to Vermont, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $124,636 for a family of four. However, Berkshire - Enosburgh contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Berkshire - Enosburgh home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Berkshire - Enosburgh residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Berkshire - Enosburgh include English, French, French Canadian, Irish, and German.
The most common language spoken in Berkshire - Enosburgh is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and French.
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 Berkshire - Enosburgh, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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, 10.5% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 12.3% 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 Berkshire - Enosburgh are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.3% 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, 40.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.0%), and 9.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households.
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 Berkshire - Enosburgh, VT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (12.6%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (12.3%), and residents who report French Canadian roots (10.5%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (10.0%), along with some German ancestry residents (5.6%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (77.8%) 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 (6.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.