Weld - Phillips is a very small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 2,071 people and just one neighborhood, Weld - Phillips is the 212th largest community in Maine.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Weld - Phillips is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Weld - Phillips is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Weld - Phillips who work in sales jobs (14.07%), office and administrative support (11.48%), and maintenance occupations (8.98%).
A relatively large number of people in Weld - Phillips telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.98% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
Another notable thing is that Weld - Phillips 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!) Weld - Phillips 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. Weld - Phillips has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Weld - Phillips than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Weld - Phillips may be for you.
Being a small town, Weld - Phillips does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Weld - Phillips is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 20.95% of adults 25 and older in Weld - Phillips have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Weld - Phillips in 2022 was $27,896, 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 $111,584 for a family of four. However, Weld - Phillips contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Weld - Phillips home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Weld - Phillips residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Weld - Phillips include English, Irish, French, German, and French Canadian.
The most common language spoken in Weld - Phillips is English. Other important languages spoken here include French 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 Weld - Phillips, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 7 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.8% 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, despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 49.8%, which is higher than 98.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more English and French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 28.7% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry and 11.2% 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 Weld - Phillips are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 10.2% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 50.3% of America's neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 30.6% 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 30.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.5%), and 17.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.1% 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 Weld - Phillips, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (28.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (18.4%), and residents who report French roots (11.2%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (5.3%), along with some French Canadian ancestry residents (4.5%), 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 (30.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.7%) 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 (6.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.