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Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor, ME

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Overview


Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor is a very small coastal town (i.e. on the ocean, a bay, or inlet) located in the state of Maine. With a population of 2,211 people and just one neighborhood, Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor is the 206th largest community in Maine.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 44.67% of Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor is a town of farmers, fishers, or foresters, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor who work in farm management occupations (21.45%), management occupations (16.24%), and office and administrative support (14.59%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Another notable thing is that Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor 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.

Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

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, Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor is also nautical, which means that parts of it are somewhat historic and touch the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and bays. Such areas are often places that visitors and locals go for waterfront activities or taking in the scenery.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 25.04% of adults in Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor in 2018 was $40,156, which is upper middle income relative to Maine and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $160,624 for a family of four. However, Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor include English, Irish, German, French, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Korean.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 36 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 91.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods. is a neighborhood that is on the ocean, a bay, or inlet. Many times, such places have amenities that bring locals and visitors to the waterfront for recreational activities or to check out the scenery. In some densely populated areas that are less financially well-off, the neighborhood waterfront can be relatively industrial and less open to recreation. In addition to being coastal, is a very nautical neighborhood, meaning that it is somewhat historic, walkable, densely populated and on the water. This gives the neighborhood a very nautical feel, with some seaside and shipping feel, which some may really enjoy the sights and sounds of.

In addition, vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 45.7% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 98.3% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 99.7% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more English and Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 27.4% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry and 7.3% have Scottish ancestry.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.4% 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 54.7% of America'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, 25.0% 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 23.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing (21.4%), and 16.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.7% 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 Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (27.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.6%), and residents who report German roots (10.9%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (8.4%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (7.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (71.7%) 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 (20.3%) . 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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