Bowdoin - Bowdoinham is a somewhat small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 6,368 people and just one neighborhood, Bowdoin - Bowdoinham is the 56th largest community in Maine.
Unlike some towns, Bowdoin - Bowdoinham isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Bowdoin - Bowdoinham are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Bowdoin - Bowdoinham is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bowdoin - Bowdoinham who work in management occupations (14.61%), healthcare (11.20%), and office and administrative support (10.66%).
Also of interest is that Bowdoin - Bowdoinham has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.83% 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.
Because of many things, Bowdoin - Bowdoinham 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, Bowdoin - Bowdoinham really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Bowdoin - Bowdoinham 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.
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!) Bowdoin - Bowdoinham 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. Bowdoin - Bowdoinham has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Bowdoin - Bowdoinham than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Bowdoin - Bowdoinham may be for you.
One downside of living in Bowdoin - Bowdoinham is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Bowdoin - Bowdoinham, the average commute to work is 33.98 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
The overall education level of Bowdoin - Bowdoinham citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 32.08% of adults in Bowdoin - Bowdoinham have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%.
The per capita income in Bowdoin - Bowdoinham in 2022 was $39,714, which is upper middle income relative to Maine and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $158,856 for a family of four. However, Bowdoin - Bowdoinham contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Bowdoin - Bowdoinham home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bowdoin - Bowdoinham residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bowdoin - Bowdoinham include French, English, Irish, Scottish, and French Canadian.
The most common language spoken in Bowdoin - Bowdoinham is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and French.
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 Bowdoin - Bowdoinham, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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.
The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 5.5% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Maine. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.
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, 14.9% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 4.6% 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 Bowdoin - Bowdoinham are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 65.9% of the neighborhoods in America. 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 62.8% 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, 48.6% 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 21.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.4%), and 13.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.9% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.8%).
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 Bowdoin - Bowdoinham, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (14.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.3%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (6.0%), along with some French Canadian ancestry residents (4.6%), among others.
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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.8%) 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.