Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor is a very small coastal town (i.e. on the ocean, a bay, or inlet) located in the state of Maine. With a population of 2,210 people and just one neighborhood, Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor is the 206th largest community in Maine.
Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor is a blue-collar town, with 40.29% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor is a town of sales and office workers, farmers, fishers, or foresters, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor who work in farm management occupations (18.86%), office and administrative support (13.02%), and management occupations (12.57%).
Of important note, Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor is also a town of artists. Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor’s character.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 9.51% 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.
Another notable thing is that Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor is an extremely popular destination for tourists and seasonal residents. So much of the population is seasonal such that the town’s population swells significantly during the vacation season, and drops again when the season ends. Because of this, much of the local economy is centered around tourism; some businesses may be operated only during the high season. During the low season, year-round residents will notice that the city is a substantially quieter place to live.
Overall, Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One of the nice things about Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor is that it is nautical, which means that parts of it are somewhat historic and touch the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and bays. Because of this, visitors and locals will often go to these areas to take in the scenery or to enjoy waterfront activities.
Being a small town, Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 26.24% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor in 2022 was $36,331, which is middle income relative to Maine and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $145,324 for a family of four. However, Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Korean.
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.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 36 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.7% of America. is a neighborhood that is on the ocean, a bay, or inlet. Many times, such places have amenities that bring locals and visitors to the waterfront for recreational activities or to check out the scenery. In some densely populated areas that are less financially well-off, the neighborhood waterfront can be relatively industrial and less open to recreation. In addition to being coastal, is a very nautical neighborhood, meaning that it is somewhat historic, walkable, densely populated and on the water. This gives the neighborhood a very nautical feel, with some seaside and shipping feel, which some may really enjoy the sights and sounds of.
In addition, despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 42.6%, which is higher than 98.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 99.7% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more English and Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 34.0% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry and 8.8% have Scottish ancestry.
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 Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 5.6% 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 62.1% 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, 26.6% 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 21.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.0%), and 18.9% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% of households.
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 Gouldsboro - Winter Harbor, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (34.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.9%), and residents who report German roots (11.7%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (8.8%), along with some French ancestry residents (6.5%), among others.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (77.1%) 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 (13.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.