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Table of Contents  Civics ............................................................................................................................................................. 1 

Population Demographics ............................................................................................................................. 1 

Housing ......................................................................................................................................................... 4 

Income & Poverty ......................................................................................................................................... 6 

Employment .................................................................................................................................................. 9 

Education .................................................................................................................................................... 11 

Transportation & Commuting ..................................................................................................................... 12 

Taxation ...................................................................................................................................................... 15 

Natural Resources ....................................................................................................................................... 15 

Agriculture .................................................................................................................................................. 16 

Civics  

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very low proportiogroups. This “vaecause it is domin

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mmunity Profile

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pical of a rural Baby Boom Bulgps in both Fairfietion of Fairfield’s-34 and 50-54 r population in th

on of recent collealley” appears in tnated by the “Boodue to the nature but it is highly It is very likely thhat is leaving aving attended

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69.6% in the

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1999  

  

rofile

FY 2005 

FY 2006

0.65 0.64

1.2665  1.3929

1.4676  1.5724

1.0493  0.9603

Fairfield 

43,386

5,691

13%

6 FY 

2007 F

20

4 0.71  0

9  1.3795  1.4

4  1.6080  1.7

3  0.8860  0.7

Franklin Co

407,68

46,36

11

FY 008 

FY 2009 

0.72  0.48

4107  1.0796 

7655  1.3655 

7703  0.7168 

o  Vermo

80  5,92

63  1,14

1% 

15 

FY 2010 

0.54

1.1208 

1.3770 

0.9804 

 

ont 

0,640

8,249

19%

Agricu 

Farm In

 

Addison

Benningt

Caledon

Chittende

Essex 

Franklin

Grand Is

Lamoille

Orange

Orleans

Rutland

Washingt

Windham

Windso

Vermon

 Source: 20

 

Market V

  

Addison  

Benningto

Caledonia 

Chittenden

Essex  

Franklin  

Grand Isle 

Lamoille  

Orange  

Orleans  

Rutland  

Washingto

Windham 

Windsor  

Vermont  Source: 200

 uvm

ulture

nventory by Num

2002 

n  676 

on  228 

ia  505 

en  473 

98 

n  770 

le  99 

e  317 

e  680 

s  583 

d  623 

ton  425 

m  397 

or  697 

nt  6,571 

007 USDA Cen

Value of AgTh

2002 

105,923

n   7,818

  23,789

n   28,109

6,790

115,435

  9,236

13,732

32,008

57,340

23,987

on   14,739

18,321

15,838

473,06507 USDA Censu

m.edu/crs   

County mber of farm

2007 %

Cha

773  1

226  ‐

531 

591  2

94  ‐

740  ‐

114  1

300  ‐

683 

635 

658 

444 

428 

767  1

6,984 

nsus of Agricult

gricultural Phousands of d

2007 

3  161,417 

8  10,518 

9  31,542 

9  33,662 

0  12,147 

5  160,619 

6  13,391 

2  21,594 

8  43,292 

0  82,348 

7  35,286 

9  21,511 

1  21,408 

8  24,978 

5  673,713 us of Agricultu

Fairfield C

ms 

% ange 

20

14.3% 193

‐0.9% 41

5.1% 84

24.9% 76

‐4.1% 19

‐3.9% 190

15.2% 16

‐5.4% 53

0.4% 110

8.9% 132

5.6% 121

4.5% 53

7.8% 61

10.0% 89

6.3% 1,244

ture 

Products Sodollars 

% Change

52.4%

34.5%

32.6%

19.8%

78.9%

39.1%

45.0%

57.3%

35.3%

43.6%

47.1%

45.9%

16.8%

57.7%

42.4%ure 

Community Pr

Acres of lan

02  200

3,376 187

1,126 36

4,318 81

6,679 83

9,838 26

0,115 180

6,289 17

3,820 49

0,415 101

2,240 130

1,203 130

3,942 61

1,596 50

9,952 95

4,909 1,233

old by CounAverage

2002 

156,691

34,292

47,107

59,427

69,283

217,052

149,915

43,319

47,070

98,354

38,503

34,680

46,150

22,723

71,993

rofile

nd in farms 

07  % Cha

7,482  ‐3

6,580  ‐11

1,946  ‐2

3,382  8

6,732  34

0,006  ‐5

7,138  5

9,749  ‐7

1,645  ‐7

0,308  ‐1

0,580  7

1,029  13

0,764  ‐17

5,972  6

3,313  ‐0

nty e per farm (D

2007 

208,819

46,542

59,401

56,958

129,222

217,052

117,463

71,980

63,385

129,682

53,626

48,448

50,018

32,566

96,465

ange 

3.0% 

1.1% 

2.8% 

8.7% 

4.8% 

5.3% 

5.2% 

7.6% 

7.9% 

1.5% 

7.7% 

3.1% 

7.6% 

6.7% 

0.9% 

Dollars) 

% Change 

33.3% 

35.7% 

26.1% 

‐4.2% 

86.5% 

0.0% 

‐21.6% 

66.2% 

34.7% 

31.9% 

39.3% 

39.7% 

8.4% 

43.3% 

34.0% 

16