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St. Agatha - Frenchville, ME

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Overview


St. Agatha - Frenchville is a very small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 1,792 people and just one neighborhood, St. Agatha - Frenchville is the 230th largest community in Maine.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, St. Agatha - Frenchville is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, St. Agatha - Frenchville is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in St. Agatha - Frenchville who work in office and administrative support (17.73%), management occupations (9.00%), and sales jobs (6.26%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, St. Agatha - Frenchville’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, St. Agatha - Frenchville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes St. Agatha - Frenchville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

St. Agatha - Frenchville is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The citizens of St. Agatha - Frenchville are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.66% of adults in St. Agatha - Frenchville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in St. Agatha - Frenchville in 2022 was $30,593, which is lower middle income relative to Maine, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $122,372 for a family of four. However, St. Agatha - Frenchville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call St. Agatha - Frenchville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of St. Agatha - Frenchville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in St. Agatha - Frenchville include French, French Canadian, English, Acadian/Cajun, and Danish.

The most common language spoken in St. Agatha - Frenchville is French. Other important languages spoken here include English and Polish.

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.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 92.6% of the neighborhoods in America. 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.

People

Priests and therapists would like to think they know the secrets to a truly successful marriage, but according to NeighborhoodScout's research, the folks of the neighborhood may actually hold the key. 70.7% of its residents are married, which is a higher percentage than is found in 96.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

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, 37.5% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 17.9% have French Canadian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 51.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak French at home. This is a higher percentage than 100.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 St. Agatha - Frenchville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 71.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.5% 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, 31.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 24.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (23.9%), and 17.1% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is French, spoken by 51.4% of households. Some people also speak English (48.6%).

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 St. Agatha - Frenchville, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (37.5%). There are also a number of people of French Canadian ancestry (17.9%), and residents who report English roots (8.4%), and some of the residents are also of Danish ancestry (3.3%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (3.2%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (79.9%) 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 (11.8%) . 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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