Alexander - Princeton is a very small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 1,489 people and just one neighborhood, Alexander - Princeton is the 240th largest community in Maine.
Alexander - Princeton is a blue-collar town, with 39.49% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Alexander - Princeton is a town of professionals, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Alexander - Princeton who work in office and administrative support (9.91%), teaching (8.89%), and management occupations (6.67%).
Another notable thing is that Alexander - Princeton 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.
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, Alexander - Princeton has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Alexander - Princeton a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Alexander - Princeton is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The education level of Alexander - Princeton citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 22.22% of adults in Alexander - Princeton have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Alexander - Princeton in 2022 was $30,394, which is lower middle income relative to Maine, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $121,576 for a family of four. However, Alexander - Princeton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Alexander - Princeton is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Alexander - Princeton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Alexander - Princeton residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Alexander - Princeton include English, Irish, German, Italian, and French.
The most common language spoken in Alexander - Princeton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
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 40.9%, which is higher than 97.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
In addition, uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 11 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Canadian and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Canadian ancestry and 3.4% have Native American ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Alexander - Princeton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.7% of U.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, 39.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 33.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.0%), and 11.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.3% 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 Alexander - Princeton, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (15.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.7%), and residents who report German roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (5.7%), along with some French ancestry residents (5.6%), 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 (45.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (78.3%) 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 (13.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.