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Oakfield - New Limerick, ME

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Overview


Oakfield - New Limerick is a very small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 3,164 people and just one neighborhood, Oakfield - New Limerick is the 145th largest community in Maine.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Oakfield - New Limerick is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 39.77% of the Oakfield - New Limerick workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Oakfield - New Limerick is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Oakfield - New Limerick who work in sales jobs (13.76%), office and administrative support (12.47%), and management occupations (8.29%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Oakfield - New Limerick’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

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

As is often the case in a small town, Oakfield - New Limerick doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Oakfield - New Limerick with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.69% of adults in Oakfield - New Limerick have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Oakfield - New Limerick in 2018 was $26,283, 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 $105,132 for a family of four. However, Oakfield - New Limerick contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Oakfield - New Limerick home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Oakfield - New Limerick residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Oakfield - New Limerick include English, Irish, French, German, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Oakfield - New Limerick is English. Other important languages spoken here include West Germanic languages and German/Yiddish.

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.

Real Estate

Vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 33.4% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 96.0% 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 16 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.6% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more French and English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 14.1% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 24.7% have English ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.4% 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 Oakfield - New Limerick are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 25.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 36.5% 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 22.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.7%), and 16.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.4% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (3.4%).

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 Oakfield - New Limerick, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (24.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (19.0%), and residents who report French roots (14.1%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (4.3%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (3.1%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (82.2%) 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 (9.2%) . 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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