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Edgecomb - Newcastle, ME

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Overview


Edgecomb - Newcastle is a very small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 3,899 people and just one neighborhood, Edgecomb - Newcastle is the 117th largest community in Maine.

Edgecomb - Newcastle real estate is some of the most expensive in Maine, although Edgecomb - Newcastle house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Edgecomb - Newcastle isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Edgecomb - Newcastle are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Edgecomb - Newcastle is a town of managers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Edgecomb - Newcastle who work in management occupations (23.60%), sales jobs (8.94%), and food service (8.57%).

A relatively large number of people in Edgecomb - Newcastle telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 14.50% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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, Edgecomb - Newcastle 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, Edgecomb - Newcastle really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Edgecomb - Newcastle 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.

Demographics

Edgecomb - Newcastle is one of the most well-educated cities in the nation. 40.11% of adults in Edgecomb - Newcastle have at least a bachelor's degree. Compare that to the average community in America, which has just 21.84% with a bachelor's degree or higher.

The per capita income in Edgecomb - Newcastle in 2022 was $45,017, which is upper middle income relative to Maine and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $180,068 for a family of four. However, Edgecomb - Newcastle contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Edgecomb - Newcastle is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.

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.

People

If you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 12.8% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of Maine. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools. In addition to being an excellent choice for families with school-aged children, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for college students.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish and English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 9.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry and 25.2% have English ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Urdu, which is the national language of Pakistan, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.3% 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 Edgecomb - Newcastle are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 62.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.4% 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 73.3% 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, 49.8% 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 24.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (19.5%), and 5.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.2% 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 Edgecomb - Newcastle, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (25.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (15.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.8%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (9.5%), along with some French ancestry residents (9.1%), 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 (39.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (65.4%) 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 (16.6%) . 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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