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Readfield, ME

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Overview


Readfield is a very small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 2,658 people and just one neighborhood, Readfield is the 180th largest community in Maine.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Readfield isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Readfield are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Readfield is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Readfield who work in teaching (19.21%), management occupations (15.02%), and office and administrative support (10.35%).

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

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

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 26.22% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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

Because of many things, Readfield is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Readfield really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Readfield perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly 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!) Readfield 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. Readfield has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Readfield than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Readfield may be for you.

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

Demographics

The citizens of Readfield are among the most well-educated in the nation: 48.89% of adults in Readfield have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree, whereas the average US city has 21.84% holding at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Readfield in 2018 was $43,496, which is wealthy relative to Maine, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $173,984 for a family of four.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

The neighborhood is considered a solid choice for executive lifestyles. NeighborhoodScout's analysis ranks it as better than 94.5% of Maine neighborhoods for executive living, based on the wealthy, educated professionals, executives, and managers who choose to reside here, the spacious homes that are prominent features of the real estate in the neighborhood, and the high real estate appreciation rates found here relative to other neighborhoods in the state. In addition to being an excellent choice for highly educated executives, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for families with school-aged children and urban sophisticates.

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, 25.7% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry and 5.1% have French Canadian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.4% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Readfield are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 73.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.2% 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 74.4% of America'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, 54.4% 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 22.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (12.7%), and 10.8% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.4% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.4%).

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 Readfield, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (25.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (20.1%), and residents who report German roots (12.0%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (8.4%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (7.5%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (56.2%) 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 (12.8%) . 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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