Ryegate - Peacham is a very small town located in the state of Vermont. With a population of 2,896 people and just one neighborhood, Ryegate - Peacham is the 81st largest community in Vermont. Much of the housing stock in Ryegate - Peacham was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Unlike some towns, Ryegate - Peacham isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Ryegate - Peacham are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Ryegate - Peacham is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ryegate - Peacham who work in teaching (9.55%), management occupations (9.42%), and office and administrative support (9.15%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 11.66% 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.
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, Ryegate - Peacham has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Ryegate - Peacham a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
The citizens of Ryegate - Peacham are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 37.58% of adults in Ryegate - Peacham have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Ryegate - Peacham in 2022 was $38,262, 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 $153,048 for a family of four. However, Ryegate - Peacham contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Ryegate - Peacham home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ryegate - Peacham residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Ryegate - Peacham include Irish, English, French, German, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Ryegate - Peacham is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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 Ryegate - Peacham, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 31.1% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 95.2% 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.
In addition, uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 21 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 94.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry and 5.1% have French Canadian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Ryegate - Peacham are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 16.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.4% of U.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, 40.0% 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 29.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.8%), and 12.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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 Ryegate - Peacham, VT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (21.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (19.8%), and residents who report French roots (11.0%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (9.8%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (8.2%), among others.
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 (34.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (76.5%) 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 (9.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.