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Dixmont - Plymouth, ME

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Overview


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.

Occupations and Workforce

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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Dixmont - Plymouth is worth considering.

One downside of living in Dixmont - Plymouth is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Dixmont - Plymouth, the average commute to work is 30.24 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Dixmont - Plymouth does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Dixmont - Plymouth is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.80% of adults 25 and older in Dixmont - Plymouth have a bachelor's degree or advanced 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.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 91.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

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.

The Neighbors

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.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.6% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 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.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. 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.


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