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Does real estate here hold its value?
Are the trends in local vacancies or unemployment concerning?
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Oakfield - New Limerick is a very small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 3,164 people and just one neighborhood, Oakfield - New Limerick is the 145th largest community in Maine.
Occupations and Workforce
When you are in Oakfield - New Limerick, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 39.77% of Oakfield - New Limerick’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Oakfield - New Limerick is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Oakfield - New Limerick who work in sales jobs (13.76%), office and administrative support (12.47%), and management occupations (8.29%).
Setting & Lifestyle
Oakfield - New Limerick’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
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, Oakfield - New Limerick has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Oakfield - New Limerick a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
As is often the case in a small town, Oakfield - New Limerick doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Demographics
In terms of college education, the citizens of Oakfield - New Limerick rank slightly lower than the national average. 13.69% of adults 25 and older in Oakfield - New Limerick have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Oakfield - New Limerick in 2022 was $26,283, 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 $105,132 for a family of four. However, Oakfield - New Limerick contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Oakfield - New Limerick home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Oakfield - New Limerick residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Oakfield - New Limerick include English, Irish, French, German, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Oakfield - New Limerick is English. Other important languages spoken here include West Germanic languages and German/Yiddish.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Real Estate
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 33.4%, which is higher than 96.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
In addition, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 16 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.6% of America.
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, 14.1% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 24.7% have English ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.4% 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 Oakfield - New Limerick are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 25.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.8% of U.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, 36.5% 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 22.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.7%), and 16.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.4% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (3.4%).
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 Oakfield - New Limerick, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (24.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (19.0%), and residents who report French roots (14.1%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (4.3%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (3.1%), 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 (44.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.2%) 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 (9.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
