Greenbush - Passadumkeag is a very small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 1,837 people and just one neighborhood, Greenbush - Passadumkeag is the 229th largest community in Maine.
Greenbush - Passadumkeag is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Greenbush - Passadumkeag is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Greenbush - Passadumkeag who work in office and administrative support (16.83%), teaching (9.52%), and sales jobs (8.19%).
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, Greenbush - Passadumkeag has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Greenbush - Passadumkeag a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Greenbush - Passadumkeag is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Greenbush - Passadumkeag, the average commute to work is 33.45 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Greenbush - Passadumkeag does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Greenbush - Passadumkeag is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.79% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Greenbush - Passadumkeag in 2022 was $26,684, 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 $106,736 for a family of four. However, Greenbush - Passadumkeag contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Greenbush - Passadumkeag home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Greenbush - Passadumkeag residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Greenbush - Passadumkeag include English, French, Irish, French Canadian, and German.
The most common language spoken in Greenbush - Passadumkeag is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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.
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 27 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.3% 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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 20.4% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 5.0% have French Canadian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Greenbush - Passadumkeag are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 71.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 4.3% 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 67.1% 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, 27.9% 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 24.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.6%), and 22.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Greenbush - Passadumkeag, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (21.5%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (20.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (14.1%), and some of the residents are also of French Canadian ancestry (5.0%), along with some German ancestry residents (4.7%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (81.7%) 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 (15.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.