Winthrop is a somewhat small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 6,201 people and two associated neighborhoods, Winthrop is the 57th largest community in Maine.Winthrop is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 86.02% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Winthrop is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Winthrop who work in management occupations (12.54%), business and financial occupations (11.22%), and office and administrative support (10.20%). Also of interest is that Winthrop has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. A relatively large number of people in Winthrop telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 16.87% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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. 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!) Winthrop 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. Winthrop has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Winthrop than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Winthrop may be for you. Winthrop 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 citizens of Winthrop are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 37.30% of adults in Winthrop have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree. The per capita income in Winthrop in 2022 was $38,926, 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 $155,704 for a family of four. However, Winthrop contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Winthrop home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Winthrop residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Winthrop include English, Irish, French, German, and Polish. The most common language spoken in Winthrop is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and French.
