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Dexter, ME

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Overview


Dexter is a very small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 3,812 people and just one neighborhood, Dexter is the 116th largest community in Maine.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Dexter isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Dexter are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Dexter is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dexter who work in office and administrative support (11.31%), sales jobs (10.26%), and healthcare (9.78%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 12.23% 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

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

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

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Dexter with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.01% of adults in Dexter have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Dexter in 2022 was $33,517, which is middle income relative to Maine and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $134,068 for a family of four. However, Dexter contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

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, 11.4% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 18.3% 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 Dexter are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 23.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.4% 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, 35.4% 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 24.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (21.3%), and 17.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.5% of households. Some people also speak Italian (4.8%).

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 Dexter, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (21.0%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (18.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (17.5%), and some of the residents are also of French Canadian ancestry (11.4%), along with some German ancestry residents (7.8%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (39.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (79.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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