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Dixfield - Canton, ME

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Overview


Dixfield - Canton is a very small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 3,490 people and just one neighborhood, Dixfield - Canton is the 133rd largest community in Maine.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Dixfield - Canton is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 40.56% of the Dixfield - Canton workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Dixfield - Canton is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dixfield - Canton who work in sales jobs (8.11%), teaching (7.82%), and management occupations (7.30%).

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

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

Demographics

The citizens of Dixfield - Canton are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 23.32% of adults in Dixfield - Canton having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Dixfield - Canton in 2018 was $28,108, 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 $112,432 for a family of four. However, Dixfield - Canton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Dixfield - Canton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and French.

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.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Canadian and French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Canadian ancestry and 14.6% have French 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 Dixfield - Canton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 10.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 50.5% of U.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 manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 36.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (13.5%), and 9.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households. Some people also speak Italian (5.0%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Dixfield - Canton, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (18.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (17.8%), and residents who report French roots (14.6%), and some of the residents are also of French Canadian ancestry (7.0%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (6.1%), 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 (36.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (76.7%) 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 (15.0%) . 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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