Livermore is a very small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 2,163 people and just one neighborhood, Livermore is the 209th largest community in Maine.
Unlike some towns, Livermore isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Livermore are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Livermore is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Livermore who work in office and administrative support (16.90%), architecture and engineering (8.55%), and teaching (8.05%).
Also of interest is that Livermore 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: 8.52% 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.
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!) Livermore 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. Livermore has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Livermore than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Livermore may be for you.
One downside of living in Livermore is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Livermore, the average commute to work is 31.47 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Livermore does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Livermore citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 23.40% of adults in Livermore have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Livermore in 2022 was $41,013, which is upper middle income relative to Maine and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $164,052 for a family of four. However, Livermore contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Livermore home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Livermore residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Livermore include English, French, Irish, French Canadian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Livermore is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Livermore, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Owner-occupied real estate dominates the neighborhood. In fact, according to NeighborhoodScout research, the percentage of residential real estate occupied by its owner is higher here than in 97.9% of neighborhoods in America.
In addition, one of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 18.5% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 8.9% have French Canadian ancestry.
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 Livermore are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 10.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 50.6% 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, 37.8% 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 27.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.4%), and 14.1% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% of households. Some people also speak Italian (5.9%).
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 Livermore, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (26.1%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (18.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (13.2%), and some of the residents are also of French Canadian ancestry (8.9%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (5.5%), 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 between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (32.2% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (85.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.