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Edgartown, MA

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Overview


Edgartown is a somewhat small coastal town (i.e. on the ocean, a bay, or inlet) located in the state of Massachusetts. With a population of 5,266 people and just one neighborhood, Edgartown is the 250th largest community in Massachusetts.

Edgartown home prices are not only among the most expensive in Massachusetts, but Edgartown real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Edgartown isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Edgartown are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Edgartown is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Edgartown who work in sales jobs (18.47%), management occupations (17.96%), and maintenance occupations (8.58%).

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

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 16.62% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Another notable thing is that Edgartown is an extremely popular destination for tourists and seasonal residents. So much of the population is seasonal such that the town’s population swells significantly during the vacation season, and drops again when the season ends. Because of this, much of the local economy is centered around tourism; some businesses may be operated only during the high season. During the low season, year-round residents will notice that the city is a substantially quieter 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, Edgartown has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Edgartown a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Edgartown is also nautical, which means that parts of it are somewhat historic and touch the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and bays. Quite often, nautical areas such as these attract visitors and locals who come to enjoy the scenery and various waterfront activities.

Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 13.09 minutes getting to work every day.

Edgartown is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The population of Edgartown is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 21.84% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 36.72% of adults in Edgartown have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Edgartown in 2018 was $58,111, which is upper middle income relative to Massachusetts, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $232,444 for a family of four. However, Edgartown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Edgartown is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Edgartown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Edgartown residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Edgartown include Brazilian, Irish, German, English, and French.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Edgartown's cultural character, accounting for 18.41% of the town’s population.

The most common language spoken in Edgartown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Portuguese and Chinese.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Real Estate

Do you like a coastal setting? If so, this neighborhood may be to your liking. The neighborhood is on the ocean, a bay, or inlet. Often such coastal places have amenities and recreational activities on the waterfront that are attractive to residents and visitors alike. In addition to being coastal, is a very nautical neighborhood, meaning that it is somewhat historic, walkable, densely populated and on the water. This gives the neighborhood a very nautical feel, with some seaside and shipping feel, which some may really enjoy the sights and sounds of.

In addition, despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 70.9%, which is higher than 99.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Length of Commute

Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. Residents of the neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 71.7% of the residents have a commute time from home to work (one way) of less than fifteen minutes. This is a higher proportion of residents enjoying a short trip to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.

People

Astoundingly, the neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular Edgartown neighborhood.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Brazilian and Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 21.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Brazilian ancestry and 5.5% have Swedish ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 21.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Portuguese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.9% 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 Edgartown are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 58.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.8% 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 51.2% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 39.6% 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 32.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (20.5%), and 6.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 80.5% of households. Some people also speak Portuguese (21.2%).

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 Edgartown, MA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Brazilian (21.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.8%), and residents who report German roots (13.9%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (12.1%), along with some French ancestry residents (5.7%), among others. In addition, 18.4% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (71.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (58.0%) 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 (18.6%) . 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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