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Norway, ME

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Overview


Norway is a somewhat small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 5,236 people and just one neighborhood, Norway is the 75th largest community in Maine.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Norway isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Norway are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Norway is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Norway who work in office and administrative support (14.84%), teaching (7.81%), and computer science and math (6.93%).

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

Of important note, Norway is also a town of artists. Norway has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Norway’s character.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 12.05% 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

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

One downside of living in Norway, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.58 minutes every day commuting to work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Norway is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 25.45% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Norway in 2018 was $29,055, 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 $116,220 for a family of four. However, Norway contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Norway home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Norway residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Norway include English, French, Irish, German, and Italian.

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

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

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more French and Finnish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 16.4% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 2.8% have Finnish 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 Norway are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 43.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 91.3% 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, 34.8% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 22.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.1%), and 20.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.2% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Norway, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (19.0%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (16.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (13.7%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (5.9%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (5.6%), 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 (30.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (73.0%) 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 (13.4%) . 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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