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Turner, ME

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Overview


Turner is a somewhat small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 5,846 people and just one neighborhood, Turner is the 66th largest community in Maine.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Turner isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Turner are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Turner is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Turner who work in office and administrative support (15.75%), sales jobs (13.95%), and management occupations (13.61%).

Also of interest is that Turner 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: 12.06% 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

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

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Turner who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.72% of the adults in Turner have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Turner in 2018 was $36,600, which is middle income relative to Maine, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $146,400 for a family of four. However, Turner contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Turner is English. Other important languages spoken here include French 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 Turner, 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 Canadian and French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 12.9% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 20.9% have French ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 4.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak French at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.9% 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 Turner are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 62.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.5% 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 73.4% of America'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, 35.4% 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 24.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.0%), and 17.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include French and Polish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Turner, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (20.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (17.6%), and residents who report French Canadian roots (12.9%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (10.7%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (6.2%), 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 (52.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (73.3%) 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 (13.3%) . 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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