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Porter - Hiram, ME

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Overview


Porter - Hiram is a very small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 3,315 people and just one neighborhood, Porter - Hiram is the 142nd largest community in Maine.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Porter - Hiram is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 40.23% of the Porter - Hiram workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Porter - Hiram is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Porter - Hiram who work in office and administrative support (10.80%), management occupations (9.46%), and food service (7.06%).

A relatively large number of people in Porter - Hiram telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.29% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Porter - Hiram has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Porter - Hiram a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Porter - Hiram, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.25 minutes every day commuting to work.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Porter - Hiram who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.42% of the adults in Porter - Hiram have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Porter - Hiram in 2018 was $27,308, 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 $109,232 for a family of four. However, Porter - Hiram contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Porter - Hiram is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Porter - Hiram home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Porter - Hiram residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Porter - Hiram include English, Irish, French, German, and Italian.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

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, 3.3% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 7.9% have French ancestry.

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 Porter - Hiram are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.2% 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, 37.9% 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 25.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.9%), and 15.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.4% of households. Some people also speak Italian (5.9%).

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 Porter - Hiram, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (19.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.6%), and residents who report French roots (7.9%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (6.3%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (5.8%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (27.3% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (70.2%) 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 (20.0%) . 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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