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Eden - Waterville is a very small town located in the state of Vermont. With a population of 2,356 people and just one neighborhood, Eden - Waterville is the 103rd largest community in Vermont.
Occupations and Workforce
Eden - Waterville is a blue-collar town, with 38.93% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Eden - Waterville is a town of construction workers and builders, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Eden - Waterville who work in management occupations (11.57%), sales jobs (6.74%), and office and administrative support (6.51%).
Setting & Lifestyle
The overall crime rate in Eden - Waterville is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
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, Eden - Waterville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Eden - Waterville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Eden - Waterville, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 36.93 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Eden - Waterville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Demographics
In terms of college education, Eden - Waterville is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 25.58% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Eden - Waterville in 2022 was $34,813, which is lower middle income relative to Vermont, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $139,252 for a family of four. However, Eden - Waterville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Eden - Waterville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Eden - Waterville residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Eden - Waterville include Irish, French Canadian, English, French, and German.
The most common language spoken in Eden - Waterville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Eden - Waterville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Real Estate
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 21 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.6% of America.
People
With a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 85.0% of the neighborhoods in VT. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.
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, 13.4% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 11.5% have French 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 Eden - Waterville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 51.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.6% 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 54.3% 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, 36.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 33.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.9%), and 11.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% of households. Some people also speak Italian (5.6%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
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 Eden - Waterville, VT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (19.9%). There are also a number of people of French Canadian ancestry (13.4%), and residents who report English roots (13.4%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (11.5%), along with some German ancestry residents (7.3%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (34.9% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (84.3%) 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 (11.1%) . 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.
