Dixmont - Plymouth is a very small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 2,589 people and just one neighborhood, Dixmont - Plymouth is the 186th largest community in Maine.
Dixmont - Plymouth is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Dixmont - Plymouth is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Dixmont - Plymouth who work in office and administrative support (14.61%), management occupations (10.35%), and healthcare suport services (7.19%).
Also of interest is that Dixmont - Plymouth 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: 13.06% 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.
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!) Dixmont - Plymouth 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. Dixmont - Plymouth has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Dixmont - Plymouth than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Dixmont - Plymouth may be for you.
One downside of living in Dixmont - Plymouth, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.24 minutes every day commuting to work.
Dixmont - Plymouth 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 education level of Dixmont - Plymouth citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 17.80% of adults 25 and older in Dixmont - Plymouth have a college degree.
The per capita income in Dixmont - Plymouth in 2022 was $31,830, which is lower middle income relative to Maine, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $127,320 for a family of four. However, Dixmont - Plymouth contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Dixmont - Plymouth home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dixmont - Plymouth residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Dixmont - Plymouth include English, Irish, French, Scottish, and German.
The most common language spoken in Dixmont - Plymouth is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Dixmont - Plymouth, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 38 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 91.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish and French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry and 9.7% 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 Dixmont - Plymouth are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 31.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 30.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.8%), and 16.2% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.6% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Dixmont - Plymouth, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (17.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.6%), and residents who report French roots (9.7%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (8.2%), along with some German ancestry residents (6.2%), 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 (37.8% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (77.6%) 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 (6.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.