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Bucksport, ME

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Overview


Bucksport is a very small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 5,016 people and just one neighborhood, Bucksport is the 78th largest community in Maine.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Bucksport is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Bucksport is a town of service providers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bucksport who work in management occupations (16.66%), food service (9.23%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (8.93%).

Bucksport is home to a number of people employed in the armed forces. When you visit or walk around Bucksport, some of the people you will bump into will be military people In and out of uniform, jogging, shopping and generally out and about town.

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Bucksport 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. Bucksport has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Bucksport than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Bucksport may be for you.

One downside of living in Bucksport, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.72 minutes every day commuting to work.

Being a small town, Bucksport does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The citizens of Bucksport are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 21.95% of adults in Bucksport having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Bucksport in 2018 was $31,101, which is lower middle income relative to Maine, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $124,404 for a family of four. However, Bucksport contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Bucksport home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bucksport residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Bucksport include English, Irish, French Canadian, French, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Bucksport is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Modes of Transportation

In the neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 24.5% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 96.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Occupations

The neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 96.5% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more English and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 28.4% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry and 7.3% have French Canadian ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Bucksport are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.0% 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 53.3% of America's neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 37.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 25.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (24.6%), and 12.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.1% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Bucksport, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (28.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (21.4%), and residents who report French Canadian roots (7.3%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (7.2%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (5.7%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.6% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (68.2%) 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 (24.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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