South Hero - Grand Isle is a very small town located in the state of Vermont. With a population of 3,861 people and just one neighborhood, South Hero - Grand Isle is the 55th largest community in Vermont.
South Hero - Grand Isle home prices are not only among the most expensive in Vermont, but South Hero - Grand Isle real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.
South Hero - Grand Isle is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 85.09% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, South Hero - Grand Isle is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in South Hero - Grand Isle who work in management occupations (16.18%), healthcare (9.34%), and sales jobs (8.83%).
Also of interest is that South Hero - Grand Isle has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Of important note, South Hero - Grand Isle is also a town of artists. South Hero - Grand Isle has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape South Hero - Grand Isle’s character.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 19.99% 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.
In addition, South Hero - Grand Isle is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates". Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.
Because of many things, South Hero - Grand Isle is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making South Hero - Grand Isle 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, South Hero - Grand Isle has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, South Hero - Grand Isle’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
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!) South Hero - Grand Isle 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. South Hero - Grand Isle has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in South Hero - Grand Isle than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, South Hero - Grand Isle may be for you.
One downside of living in South Hero - Grand Isle, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.68 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small town, South Hero - Grand Isle does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of South Hero - Grand Isle ranks among the highest in the nation. Of the 25-and-older adult population in South Hero - Grand Isle, 48.89% have at least a bachelor's degree. The typical US community has just 21.84% of its adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree.
The per capita income in South Hero - Grand Isle in 2022 was $52,313, which is wealthy relative to Vermont and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $209,252 for a family of four.
The people who call South Hero - Grand Isle home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of South Hero - Grand Isle residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in South Hero - Grand Isle include English, French, Irish, German, and French Canadian.
The most common language spoken in South Hero - Grand Isle is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 33.3% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 95.9% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.
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, 10.5% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 14.2% have French 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 South Hero - Grand Isle are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 78.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.0% 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 71.5% 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, 53.3% 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 19.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (14.0%), and 12.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.3% 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 South Hero - Grand Isle, VT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (19.9%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (14.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (14.0%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (11.7%), along with some French Canadian ancestry residents (10.5%), among others.
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (49.6% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (75.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.