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Voluntown, CT

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Overview


Voluntown is a very small town located in the state of Connecticut. With a population of 2,612 people and just one neighborhood, Voluntown is the 152nd largest community in Connecticut.

Occupations and Workforce

Voluntown is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Voluntown is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Voluntown who work in office and administrative support (19.03%), teaching (7.45%), and management occupations (7.45%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Voluntown is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Voluntown really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Voluntown perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly 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, Voluntown has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Voluntown a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

In Voluntown, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.15 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Voluntown 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 percentage of people in Voluntown who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 25.33% of adults in Voluntown have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Voluntown in 2022 was $46,907, which is lower middle income relative to Connecticut, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $187,628 for a family of four. However, Voluntown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Voluntown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more French and Finnish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 20.8% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 4.1% have Finnish ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 10.0% 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 98.1% 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 Voluntown are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 67.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 10.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 50.7% of U.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, 30.6% 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 30.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.6%), and 17.6% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.4% of households. Some people also speak Polish (10.0%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Voluntown, CT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (20.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (14.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (11.9%), along with some German ancestry residents (10.2%), 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 (38.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.2%) 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 (9.7%) . 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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