Overview Barton is a very small town located in the state of Vermont. With a population of 2,777 people and just one neighborhood, Barton is the 80th largest community in Vermont. Occupations and Workforce Barton is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 85.39% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Barton is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Barton who work in healthcare (14.90%), teaching (14.68%), and office and administrative support (13.01%). Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 11.51% 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 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!) Barton 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. Barton has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Barton than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Barton may be for you. One downside of living in Barton, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.22 minutes every day commuting to work. Barton 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. Barton Demographics In terms of college education, Barton is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 33.88% of adults in Barton have a college degree. The per capita income in Barton in 2022 was $32,278, which is low income relative to Vermont, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $129,112 for a family of four. However, Barton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Barton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Barton residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Barton include French Canadian, English, French, Irish, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Barton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and French.