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Eustis - Coplin, ME

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Overview


Eustis - Coplin is a tiny town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 917 people and just one neighborhood, Eustis - Coplin is the 252nd largest community in Maine.

Occupations and Workforce

Eustis - Coplin is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Eustis - Coplin is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Eustis - Coplin who work in food service (24.65%), office and administrative support (15.63%), and sales jobs (9.03%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

Another notable thing is that Eustis - Coplin is a major vacation destination. Much of the town’s population is seasonal: many people own second homes and only live there part-time, during the vacation season. The effect on the local economy is that many of the businesses are dependent on tourist dollars, and may operate only during the high season. As the vacation season ends, Eustis - Coplin’s population drops significantly, such that year-round residents will notice that the city is a much quieter place to live.

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Eustis - Coplin is worth considering.

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Eustis - Coplin spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 17.05 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.

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

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Eustis - Coplin who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.58% of the adults in Eustis - Coplin have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Eustis - Coplin in 2018 was $30,551, 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 $122,204 for a family of four. However, Eustis - Coplin contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Eustis - Coplin is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Eustis - Coplin, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

Vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 78.0% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 99.9% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.

In addition, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 2 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 99.2% of America.

People

Divorcees may find friendship and understanding in this neighborhood, as 21.2% of its residents are divorced. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis found that this divorce rate is higher than in 96.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

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, 29.8% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry and 8.3% have French Canadian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Eustis - Coplin are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 93.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 36.5% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 33.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.6%), and 14.2% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

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 96.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

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 Eustis - Coplin, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (29.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.1%), and residents who report French roots (9.7%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (9.3%), along with some French Canadian ancestry residents (8.3%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (54.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (86.5%) 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 (6.9%) . 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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