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Newfield - Shapleigh is a very small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 3,665 people and just one neighborhood, Newfield - Shapleigh is the 128th largest community in Maine.
Occupations and Workforce
Unlike some towns, Newfield - Shapleigh isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Newfield - Shapleigh are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Newfield - Shapleigh is a town of professionals, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Newfield - Shapleigh who work in sales jobs (11.05%), teaching (7.57%), and management occupations (6.49%).
Also of interest is that Newfield - Shapleigh has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 10.33% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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
Another notable thing is that Newfield - Shapleigh 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, Newfield - Shapleigh’s population drops significantly, such that year-round residents will notice that the city is a much quieter place to live.
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!) Newfield - Shapleigh 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. Newfield - Shapleigh has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Newfield - Shapleigh than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Newfield - Shapleigh may be for you.
One downside of living in Newfield - Shapleigh is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Newfield - Shapleigh, the average commute to work is 36.44 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Newfield - Shapleigh doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Demographics
The population of Newfield - Shapleigh overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Newfield - Shapleigh, 23.16% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Newfield - Shapleigh in 2022 was $41,965, which is upper middle income relative to Maine and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $167,860 for a family of four. However, Newfield - Shapleigh contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Newfield - Shapleigh home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Newfield - Shapleigh residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Newfield - Shapleigh include English, French, Irish, Greek, and German.
The most common language spoken in Newfield - Shapleigh is English. Other important languages spoken here include French 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
Owner-occupied real estate dominates the neighborhood. In fact, according to NeighborhoodScout research, the percentage of residential real estate occupied by its owner is higher here than in 98.9% of neighborhoods in America. Vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 45.4% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 98.4% 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, one of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Greek and French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Greek ancestry and 18.0% 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 Newfield - Shapleigh are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.0% 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 74.9% 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, 36.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 28.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.3%), and 9.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% of households.
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 Newfield - Shapleigh, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (18.9%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (18.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (14.4%), and some of the residents are also of Greek ancestry (6.4%), along with some German ancestry residents (5.3%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (29.7% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (73.9%) 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 (12.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
