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Buckland - Shelburne, MA

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Overview


Buckland - Shelburne is a very small town located in the state of Massachusetts. With a population of 3,696 people and just one neighborhood, Buckland - Shelburne is the 271st largest community in Massachusetts. Buckland - Shelburne has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.

Occupations and Workforce

Buckland - Shelburne is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Buckland - Shelburne is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Buckland - Shelburne who work in teaching (9.95%), healthcare (8.94%), and management occupations (8.52%).

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

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 17.06% 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

Overall, Buckland - Shelburne’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

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, Buckland - Shelburne has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Buckland - Shelburne a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Being a small town, Buckland - Shelburne does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Buckland - Shelburne, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Buckland - Shelburne is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 51.63% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 21.84%.

The per capita income in Buckland - Shelburne in 2022 was $40,219, which is low income relative to Massachusetts, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $160,876 for a family of four. However, Buckland - Shelburne contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Buckland - Shelburne is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Buckland - Shelburne home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Buckland - Shelburne residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Buckland - Shelburne include English, Irish, German, Italian, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Buckland - Shelburne is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish 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 Buckland - Shelburne, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

If you are planning to retire in Massachusetts, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in Massachusetts, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 99.8% of neighborhoods in MA. If a Massachusetts retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more English and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 26.9% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry and 5.0% have French Canadian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 9.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Buckland - Shelburne are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 55.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.3% 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 52.5% 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, 42.4% 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 25.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.1%), and 12.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.1% of households. Some people also speak Polish (9.2%).

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 Buckland - Shelburne, MA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (26.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.2%), and residents who report German roots (12.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (9.0%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (8.4%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (72.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (5.7%) . 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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