Ripton - Lincoln is a very small town located in the state of Vermont. With a population of 2,939 people and just one neighborhood, Ripton - Lincoln is the 79th largest community in Vermont.
Ripton - Lincoln is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Ripton - Lincoln is a town of managers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ripton - Lincoln who work in management occupations (18.43%), office and administrative support (8.51%), and food service (7.41%).
Of important note, Ripton - Lincoln is also a town of artists. Ripton - Lincoln has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Ripton - Lincoln’s character.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 16.42% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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, Ripton - Lincoln is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Ripton - Lincoln really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Ripton - Lincoln perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Ripton - Lincoln has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Ripton - Lincoln a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Ripton - Lincoln is one of the most well-educated cities in the nation. 42.51% of adults in Ripton - Lincoln have at least a bachelor's degree. Compare that to the average community in America, which has just 21.84% with a bachelor's degree or higher.
The per capita income in Ripton - Lincoln in 2022 was $51,305, which is wealthy relative to Vermont and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $205,220 for a family of four. However, Ripton - Lincoln contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Ripton - Lincoln home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ripton - Lincoln residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Ripton - Lincoln include English, Irish, German, French Canadian, and French.
The most common language spoken in Ripton - Lincoln is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and French.
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.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 14 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French Canadian and Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.7% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 5.3% have Scottish 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 Ripton - Lincoln are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 58.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 12.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 55.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 47.6% 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 21.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.8%), and 10.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.2% 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 Ripton - Lincoln, VT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (19.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.4%), and residents who report German roots (12.8%), and some of the residents are also of French Canadian ancestry (6.7%), along with some French ancestry residents (5.7%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (68.9%) 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 (9.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.