Starksboro - Monkton is a very small town located in the state of Vermont. With a population of 3,873 people and just one neighborhood, Starksboro - Monkton is the 52nd largest community in Vermont.
Starksboro - Monkton is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Starksboro - Monkton is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Starksboro - Monkton who work in management occupations (13.17%), sales jobs (10.72%), and teaching (8.49%).
Also of interest is that Starksboro - Monkton has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in Starksboro - Monkton telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 13.17% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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, Starksboro - Monkton is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Starksboro - Monkton 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, Starksboro - Monkton has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Starksboro - Monkton’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.
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!) Starksboro - Monkton 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. Starksboro - Monkton has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Starksboro - Monkton than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Starksboro - Monkton may be for you.
One downside of living in Starksboro - Monkton is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Starksboro - Monkton, the average commute to work is 33.63 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
The education level of Starksboro - Monkton ranks among the highest in the nation. Of the 25-and-older adult population in Starksboro - Monkton, 43.14% have at least a bachelor's degree. The typical US community has just 21.84% of its adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree.
The per capita income in Starksboro - Monkton in 2022 was $41,322, which is middle income relative to Vermont, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $165,288 for a family of four. However, Starksboro - Monkton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Starksboro - Monkton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Starksboro - Monkton residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Starksboro - Monkton include Irish, English, French Canadian, French, and German.
The most common language spoken in Starksboro - Monkton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish 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 Starksboro - Monkton, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 9.8% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Vermont. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.
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 9.6% 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 Starksboro - Monkton are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 73.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.5% 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 63.0% 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, 45.0% 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 22.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.1%), and 8.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.7% 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 Starksboro - Monkton, VT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (21.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (20.2%), and residents who report French Canadian roots (10.2%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (9.6%), along with some German ancestry residents (8.8%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (77.4%) 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 (8.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.