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Randolph - Pittston, ME

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Overview


Randolph - Pittston is a very small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 4,724 people and just one neighborhood, Randolph - Pittston is the 87th largest community in Maine.

Occupations and Workforce

Randolph - Pittston is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Randolph - Pittston is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Randolph - Pittston who work in office and administrative support (15.01%), sales jobs (13.35%), and teaching (12.31%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

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

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Randolph - Pittston who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.30% of the adults in Randolph - Pittston have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Randolph - Pittston in 2018 was $33,641, which is middle income relative to Maine and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $134,564 for a family of four. However, Randolph - Pittston contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Randolph - Pittston is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Randolph - Pittston home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Randolph - Pittston residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Randolph - Pittston also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.97% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Randolph - Pittston include English, French, Irish, French Canadian, and German.

The most common language spoken in Randolph - Pittston is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

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

Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 91.5% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 97.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

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, 15.4% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 25.1% have English ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.1% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Randolph - Pittston are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.2% 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 52.8% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 36.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 22.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (21.6%), and 17.0% 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 95.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

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 Randolph - Pittston, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (25.1%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (15.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (13.2%), and some of the residents are also of French Canadian ancestry (5.1%), along with some German ancestry residents (5.1%), 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 (40.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (91.5%) 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 (5.1%) . 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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