Westford - Underhill is a somewhat small town located in the state of Vermont. With a population of 6,483 people and just one neighborhood, Westford - Underhill is the 20th largest community in Vermont.
Westford - Underhill real estate is some of the most expensive in Vermont, although Westford - Underhill house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Unlike some towns, Westford - Underhill isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Westford - Underhill are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Westford - Underhill is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Westford - Underhill who work in management occupations (13.64%), office and administrative support (12.32%), and teaching (10.19%).
Also of interest is that Westford - Underhill has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 12.03% 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.
Because of many things, Westford - Underhill 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, Westford - Underhill really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Westford - Underhill 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.
One downside of living in Westford - Underhill is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Westford - Underhill, the average commute to work is 34.01 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Westford - Underhill is one of the most well-educated cities in the nation. 48.40% of adults in Westford - Underhill have at least a bachelor's degree. Compare that to the average community in America, which has just 21.84% with a bachelor's degree or higher.
The per capita income in Westford - Underhill in 2022 was $46,226, which is upper middle income relative to Vermont, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $184,904 for a family of four. However, Westford - Underhill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Westford - Underhill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Westford - Underhill residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Westford - Underhill include English, Irish, German, French, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Westford - Underhill is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and French.
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.
According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, is among the best neighborhoods for families in Vermont. In fact, this neighborhood is more family-friendly than 99.0% of neighborhoods in the entire state of Vermont. Its combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes gives this area the look and feel of a "Leave It to Beaver" episode. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a strong sense of community. In addition, the high number of college-educated parents influences the academic success of the local schools. Overall, you will find all of the amenities a family needs to thrive in the neighborhood.
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, 5.5% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 8.9% have French ancestry.
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 Westford - Underhill are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 75.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.2% 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 58.1% 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, 50.2% 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 17.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (16.5%), and 15.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.2% 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 Westford - Underhill, VT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (15.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.6%), and residents who report German roots (12.7%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (8.9%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (8.5%), 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 (44.8% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (78.5%) 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 (9.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.