Another notable thing is that Greenville is an extremely popular vacation destination. A significant portion of the population is seasonal. During the vacation season, the town experiences a large influx of people who take up residence in second homes they own in the area. As the vacation season ends, the population drops again, leaving behind a substantially quieter and smaller town.
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!) Greenville 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. Greenville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Greenville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Greenville may be for you.
Greenville 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 percentage of people in Greenville who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 27.73% of adults in Greenville have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Greenville in 2022 was $35,966, which is middle income relative to Maine, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $143,864 for a family of four. However, Greenville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Greenville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Greenville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Greenville include English, Irish, French, French Canadian, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Greenville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
