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Ashford, CT

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Overview


Ashford is a very small town located in the state of Connecticut. With a population of 4,229 people and just one neighborhood, Ashford is the 139th largest community in Connecticut.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Ashford isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Ashford are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Ashford is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ashford who work in teaching (12.25%), management occupations (10.46%), and business and financial occupations (7.50%).

Also of interest is that Ashford 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 Ashford telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 17.78% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Ashford is a good choice for families with children because of several factors. Many other families with children live here, making it a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic success. Many people own their own single-family homes, providing areas for children to play and stability in the community. Finally, Ashford’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

One downside of living in Ashford, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.64 minutes every day commuting to work.

Ashford 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.

Demographics

The population of Ashford is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 21.84% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 39.92% of adults in Ashford have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Ashford in 2022 was $60,903, which is upper middle income relative to Connecticut, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $243,612 for a family of four. However, Ashford contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Ashford home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ashford residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Ashford include German, French, Irish, English, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Ashford is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Korean.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more French and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 18.6% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 7.5% have French Canadian ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Ashford are wealthy, making it among the 15% highest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 87.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.8% 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 64.7% 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, 52.8% 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 20.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.8%), and 8.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.5% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Ashford, CT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (21.8%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (18.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.6%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (10.6%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (9.9%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (33.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (72.2%) 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 (8.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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