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Corinth - Charleston, ME

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Overview


Corinth - Charleston is a very small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 4,581 people and just one neighborhood, Corinth - Charleston is the 93rd largest community in Maine.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Corinth - Charleston isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Corinth - Charleston are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Corinth - Charleston is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Corinth - Charleston who work in office and administrative support (17.74%), management occupations (11.09%), and sales jobs (7.39%).

Also of interest is that Corinth - Charleston has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 12.69% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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, Corinth - Charleston’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!) Corinth - Charleston 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. Corinth - Charleston has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Corinth - Charleston than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Corinth - Charleston may be for you.

In Corinth - Charleston, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.00 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Corinth - Charleston does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Corinth - Charleston who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.45% of the adults in Corinth - Charleston have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Corinth - Charleston in 2022 was $28,944, 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 $115,776 for a family of four. However, Corinth - Charleston contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Corinth - Charleston home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Corinth - Charleston residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Corinth - Charleston include English, French, Irish, German, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Corinth - Charleston is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Portuguese.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

Of particular note, 8.3% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more French and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 12.9% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 2.5% have Native American ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Mon-Khmer, which is the dominant language of Cambodia, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.4% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Corinth - Charleston are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 5.7% 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 62.4% 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, 31.4% 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 30.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.1%), and 17.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.0% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.4%).

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 Corinth - Charleston, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (15.0%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (12.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.0%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (6.9%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.2%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (46.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (78.7%) 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 (8.3%) . 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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