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New Canaan is a medium-sized town located in the state of Connecticut. With a population of 20,732 people and five constituent neighborhoods, New Canaan is the 54th largest community in Connecticut.
New Canaan home prices are not only among the most expensive in Connecticut, but New Canaan real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.
New Canaan is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 94.78% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, New Canaan is a town of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in New Canaan who work in management occupations (23.43%), business and financial occupations (17.45%), and sales jobs (13.99%).
Of important note, New Canaan is also a town of artists. New Canaan has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape New Canaan’s character.
Also of interest is that New Canaan has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 16.14% 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.
Because of many things, New Canaan is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making New Canaan a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, New Canaan has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, New Canaan’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
In New Canaan, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.97 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. One bright side is that local public transit is widely used, so it may be an option to avoid the headache of driving in the heavy traffic by leaving the car at home and taking transit.
Like elsewhere in America, most people in New Canaan use a private automobile to get to work. But notably, a substantial number of New Canaan‘s citizens do make use of public transit in their daily commute, primarily riding the train. This helps more people get to work with less air pollution, and require fewer highways to get them there.
If knowledge is power, New Canaan is a pretty powerful place. 79.21% of the adults in New Canaan have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns.
The per capita income in New Canaan in 2018 was $114,884, which is wealthy relative to Connecticut and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $459,536 for a family of four.
New Canaan is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call New Canaan home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Canaan residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in New Canaan include Irish, English, Italian, German, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in New Canaan is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.