New Sharon - Chesterville is a very small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 2,875 people and just one neighborhood, New Sharon - Chesterville is the 166th largest community in Maine.
New Sharon - Chesterville is a blue-collar town, with 36.38% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, New Sharon - Chesterville is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in New Sharon - Chesterville who work in office and administrative support (16.24%), management occupations (8.87%), and healthcare (6.60%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.10% 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.
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!) New Sharon - Chesterville 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. New Sharon - Chesterville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in New Sharon - Chesterville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, New Sharon - Chesterville may be for you.
Being a small town, New Sharon - Chesterville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of New Sharon - Chesterville overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in New Sharon - Chesterville, 24.09% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in New Sharon - Chesterville in 2022 was $31,151, which is low income relative to Maine, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $124,604 for a family of four. However, New Sharon - Chesterville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call New Sharon - Chesterville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Sharon - Chesterville residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in New Sharon - Chesterville include English, Irish, French, French Canadian, and German.
The most common language spoken in New Sharon - Chesterville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in New Sharon - Chesterville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 34 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 92.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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, 6.5% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 11.3% have French ancestry.
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 New Sharon - Chesterville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 6.1% 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 60.6% 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, 34.7% 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 29.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.6%), and 13.3% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 New Sharon - Chesterville, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (22.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.7%), and residents who report French roots (11.3%), and some of the residents are also of French Canadian ancestry (6.5%), along with some German ancestry residents (6.0%), among others.
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 (39.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.1%) 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 (8.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.