South Hero - Grand Isle is a very small town located in the state of Vermont. With a population of 3,881 people and just one neighborhood, South Hero - Grand Isle is the 55th largest community in Vermont.
South Hero - Grand Isle home prices are not only among the most expensive in Vermont, but South Hero - Grand Isle real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, South Hero - Grand Isle is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, South Hero - Grand Isle is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in South Hero - Grand Isle who work in management occupations (13.96%), healthcare (10.68%), and business and financial occupations (7.97%).
Also of interest is that South Hero - Grand Isle 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: 21.70% 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.
Because of many things, South Hero - Grand Isle is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making South Hero - Grand Isle a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, South Hero - Grand Isle has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, South Hero - Grand Isle’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
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!) South Hero - Grand Isle 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. South Hero - Grand Isle has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in South Hero - Grand Isle than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, South Hero - Grand Isle may be for you.
In South Hero - Grand Isle, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.68 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, South Hero - Grand Isle doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
If knowledge is power, South Hero - Grand Isle is a pretty powerful place. 52.92% of the adults in South Hero - Grand Isle have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns.
The per capita income in South Hero - Grand Isle in 2022 was $64,289, which is wealthy relative to Vermont and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $257,156 for a family of four.
The people who call South Hero - Grand Isle home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of South Hero - Grand Isle residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in South Hero - Grand Isle include English, Irish, French, German, and French Canadian.
The most common language spoken in South Hero - Grand Isle is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
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.
Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 29.3%, which is higher than 95.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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, 8.2% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 13.8% have French ancestry.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in South Hero - Grand Isle are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 78.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.2% 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 73.8% 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, 54.2% 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 18.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (16.3%), and 10.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.6% of households.
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 South Hero - Grand Isle, VT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (23.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.9%), and residents who report French roots (13.8%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (9.4%), along with some French Canadian ancestry residents (8.2%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (72.2%) 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.