Medway - Chester is a very small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 1,958 people and just one neighborhood, Medway - Chester is the 216th largest community in Maine.
Unlike some towns, Medway - Chester isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Medway - Chester are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Medway - Chester is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Medway - Chester who work in sales jobs (9.97%), office and administrative support (9.69%), and food service (8.57%).
Of important note, Medway - Chester is also a town of artists. Medway - Chester has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Medway - Chester’s character.
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Medway - Chester has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Medway - Chester a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Medway - Chester does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Medway - Chester has a very low overall level of education: only 8.20% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Medway - Chester in 2022 was $24,954, which is low income relative to Maine, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $99,816 for a family of four. However, Medway - Chester contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Medway - Chester home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Medway - Chester residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Medway - Chester include English, French, Irish, Italian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Medway - Chester is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Polish.
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 Medway - Chester, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Our research reveals that 92.1% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 98.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 15 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.9% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
In addition, the real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.1% of all neighborhoods in America, with 30.1% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French and English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 15.9% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 23.5% have English 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 Medway - Chester are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 28.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 27.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.2%), and 18.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.6% of households.
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 Medway - Chester, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (23.5%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (15.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (13.8%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.3%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (3.8%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (92.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.