Livermore Falls is a very small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 3,068 people and just one neighborhood, Livermore Falls is the 152nd largest community in Maine.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Livermore Falls is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.01% of the Livermore Falls workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Livermore Falls is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Livermore Falls who work in office and administrative support (21.21%), sales jobs (12.23%), and healthcare (5.64%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.25% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
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, Livermore Falls has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Livermore Falls a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Livermore Falls is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Livermore Falls, the average commute to work is 35.58 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Livermore Falls does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Livermore Falls rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.79% of adults 25 and older in Livermore Falls have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Livermore Falls in 2022 was $21,388, which is low income relative to Maine and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $85,552 for a family of four.
The people who call Livermore Falls home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Livermore Falls residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Livermore Falls include English, Irish, French, German, and French Canadian.
The most common language spoken in Livermore Falls is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and French.
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.
Astoundingly, the neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular Livermore Falls neighborhood.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.0% of all neighborhoods in America, with 32.7% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
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, 8.6% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 12.0% have French ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Falls are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 38.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 88.0% of U.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, 37.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 23.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.8%), and 18.3% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
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 94.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and French.
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 Falls, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (22.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.6%), and residents who report French roots (12.0%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (11.4%), along with some French Canadian ancestry residents (8.6%), 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 (41.7% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (81.1%) 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 (11.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.