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Starksboro - Monkton is a very small town located in the state of Vermont. With a population of 3,895 people and just one neighborhood, Starksboro - Monkton is the 52nd largest community in Vermont.
Occupations and Workforce
Unlike some towns, Starksboro - Monkton isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Starksboro - Monkton are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Starksboro - Monkton is a town of professionals, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Starksboro - Monkton who work in management occupations (14.08%), sales jobs (10.10%), and teaching (7.42%).
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.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 17.21% 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.
Setting & Lifestyle
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 32.46 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Demographics
Starksboro - Monkton is one of the most well-educated cities in the nation. 43.00% of adults in Starksboro - Monkton 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 Starksboro - Monkton in 2022 was $42,032, 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 $168,128 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 English, Irish, French Canadian, French, and German.
The most common language spoken in Starksboro - Monkton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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.
People
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 7.3% 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.
Diversity
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, 10.7% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 10.2% have French 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 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 68.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.8% 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 61.5% of America'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, 45.6% 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 23.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (20.8%), and 8.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.6% of households.
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Starksboro - Monkton, VT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (22.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (20.6%), and residents who report French Canadian roots (10.7%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (10.2%), along with some German ancestry residents (8.9%), 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (71.5%) 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 (10.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
