Hayden is a very small town located in the state of Colorado. With a population of 1,956 people and just one neighborhood, Hayden is the 147th largest community in Colorado.
Unlike some towns, Hayden isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Hayden are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Hayden is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Hayden who work in sales jobs (13.66%), office and administrative support (9.85%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (6.88%).
Also of interest is that Hayden has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
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!) Hayden 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. Hayden has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Hayden than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Hayden may be for you.
Hayden 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.
The overall education level of Hayden is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 28.51% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Hayden in 2022 was $34,266, which is lower middle income relative to Colorado, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $137,064 for a family of four. However, Hayden contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Hayden is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Hayden home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hayden residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Hayden include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Hayden is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish and Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry and 6.1% have Scottish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Russian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.0% 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 Hayden are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 54.6% 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 50.1% 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, 30.9% 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 30.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (27.2%), and 9.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (6.0%).
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 Hayden, CO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (18.6%), and residents who report English roots (9.9%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (6.8%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (6.1%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (46.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (87.0%) 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 (6.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.