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Monmouth, ME

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Overview


Monmouth is a very small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 4,167 people and just one neighborhood, Monmouth is the 106th largest community in Maine.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Monmouth isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Monmouth are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Monmouth is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Monmouth who work in management occupations (14.02%), office and administrative support (11.88%), and sales jobs (11.32%).

Of important note, Monmouth is also a town of artists. Monmouth has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Monmouth’s character.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 17.47% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Monmouth’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

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!) Monmouth 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. Monmouth has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Monmouth than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Monmouth may be for you.

One downside of living in Monmouth, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.26 minutes every day commuting to work.

As is often the case in a small town, Monmouth doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The education level of Monmouth citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 33.25% of adults in Monmouth have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Monmouth in 2018 was $37,139, which is upper middle income relative to Maine and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $148,556 for a family of four. However, Monmouth contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Monmouth home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Monmouth residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Monmouth include French, English, French Canadian, Irish, and Dutch.

The most common language spoken in Monmouth is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more French Canadian and French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 13.7% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 21.7% have French ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Monmouth are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 43.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.8% 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 62.2% 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, 45.0% 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 25.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (14.9%), and 13.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 96.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Monmouth, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (21.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.4%), and residents who report French Canadian roots (13.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (9.1%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (6.5%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (72.4%) 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 (9.5%) . 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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