Another notable thing is that Greenville 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.
Because of many things, Greenville is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Greenville really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Greenville perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
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!) Greenville 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. Greenville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Greenville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Greenville may be for you.
Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 18.46 minutes getting to work every day.
Being a small town, Greenville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of people in Greenville who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 28.35% of adults in Greenville have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Greenville in 2022 was $39,651, which is middle income relative to Maine, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $158,604 for a family of four. However, Greenville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Greenville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Greenville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Greenville include English, Irish, French, Italian, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Greenville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
