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Montgomery - Richford, VT

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Overview


Montgomery - Richford is a very small town located in the state of Vermont. With a population of 3,588 people and just one neighborhood, Montgomery - Richford is the 61st largest community in Vermont.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Montgomery - Richford isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Montgomery - Richford are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Montgomery - Richford is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Montgomery - Richford who work in management occupations (12.67%), food service (11.19%), and office and administrative support (10.49%).

Of important note, Montgomery - Richford is also a town of artists. Montgomery - Richford has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Montgomery - Richford’s character.

Also of interest is that Montgomery - Richford has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Montgomery - Richford 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. Montgomery - Richford has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Montgomery - Richford than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Montgomery - Richford may be for you.

Demographics

The overall education level of Montgomery - Richford is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 25.19% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Montgomery - Richford in 2018 was $27,891, which is low income relative to Vermont, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $111,564 for a family of four. However, Montgomery - Richford contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Montgomery - Richford home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Montgomery - Richford residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Montgomery - Richford include French, French Canadian, Irish, English, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Montgomery - Richford is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Montgomery - Richford, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 35 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 91.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more French Canadian and Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 10.6% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 2.4% have Canadian ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Montgomery - Richford are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.1% of U.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, 38.4% 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 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (20.4%), and 12.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.4% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.7%).

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 Montgomery - Richford, VT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (12.0%). There are also a number of people of French Canadian ancestry (10.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.1%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (6.1%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (34.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (83.3%) 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 (9.5%) . 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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