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Are the trends in local vacancies or unemployment concerning?
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Corinth - Charleston is a very small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 4,544 people and just one neighborhood, Corinth - Charleston is the 93rd largest community in Maine.
Occupations and Workforce
Unlike some towns, Corinth - Charleston isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Corinth - Charleston are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Corinth - Charleston is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Corinth - Charleston who work in office and administrative support (17.74%), management occupations (11.09%), and sales jobs (7.39%).
Also of interest is that Corinth - Charleston 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: 12.69% 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.
Setting & Lifestyle
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, Corinth - Charleston has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Corinth - Charleston a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Corinth - Charleston, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.00 minutes every day commuting to work.
Corinth - Charleston 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 percentage of adults in Corinth - Charleston who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.45% of the adults in Corinth - Charleston have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Corinth - Charleston in 2022 was $28,944, which is low income relative to Maine, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $115,776 for a family of four. However, Corinth - Charleston contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Corinth - Charleston home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Corinth - Charleston residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Corinth - Charleston include English, French, Irish, German, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Corinth - Charleston is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Portuguese.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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 Corinth - Charleston, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
People
Of particular note, 8.3% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 12.9% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 2.5% have Native American ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Mon-Khmer, which is the dominant language of Cambodia, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Corinth - Charleston are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 5.7% 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 62.4% of America'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, 31.4% 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 30.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.1%), and 17.0% 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 English, spoken by 97.0% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.4%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Corinth - Charleston, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (15.0%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (12.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.0%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (6.9%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.2%), among others.
Getting to Work
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (46.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (78.7%) 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 (8.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
