About Limestone

Limestone is a very small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 2,302 people and just one neighborhood, Limestone is the 140th largest community in Maine.

Limestone is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Limestone is a town of sales and office workers, service providers and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Limestone who work in office and administrative support (20.10%), food service (10.80%) and management occupations (8.00%).

Also of interest is that Limestone has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 12.98% 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!) Limestone 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. Limestone has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Limestone than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Limestone may be for you.

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Limestone spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 16.96 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.

Limestone 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.

Limestone Information and Demographics

The percentage of adults in Limestone with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.74% of adults in Limestone have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Limestone in 2010 was $16,859, which is low income relative to Maine and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $67,436 for a family of four.

The people who call Limestone home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Limestone residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Limestone include French, Irish, English, French Canadian, Swedish and German.

The languages spoken by people in Limestone 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 Limestone is English. Other important languages spoken here include French, Spanish and Chinese.

Limestone, ME Appreciation Rates Help

PERIOD	TOTAL APPRECIATION	AVG. ANNUAL RATE	COMPARED TO ME*	COMPARED TO AMERICA*
SINCE 1990	-13.40%	-0.62%	1	1
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				* 10 is highest

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