Eden - Waterville is a very small town located in the state of Vermont. With a population of 2,356 people and just one neighborhood, Eden - Waterville is the 103rd largest community in Vermont.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Eden - Waterville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 38.93% of the Eden - Waterville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Eden - Waterville is a town of construction workers and builders, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Eden - Waterville who work in management occupations (11.57%), sales jobs (6.74%), and office and administrative support (6.51%).
The overall crime rate in Eden - Waterville is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
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!) Eden - Waterville 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. Eden - Waterville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Eden - Waterville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Eden - Waterville may be for you.
In Eden - Waterville, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 36.93 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Eden - Waterville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Eden - Waterville is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 25.58% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Eden - Waterville in 2022 was $34,813, which is lower middle income relative to Vermont, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $139,252 for a family of four. However, Eden - Waterville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Eden - Waterville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Eden - Waterville residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Eden - Waterville include Irish, French Canadian, English, French, and German.
The most common language spoken in Eden - Waterville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 21 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.6% of America.
With a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 85.0% of the neighborhoods in VT. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.
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, 13.4% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 11.5% 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 Eden - Waterville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 51.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.6% 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 54.3% of America's neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 36.8% 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 33.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.9%), and 11.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% of households. Some people also speak Italian (5.6%).
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 Eden - Waterville, VT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (19.9%). There are also a number of people of French Canadian ancestry (13.4%), and residents who report English roots (13.4%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (11.5%), along with some German ancestry residents (7.3%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (34.9% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (84.3%) 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 (11.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.