Corinth - Charleston is a very small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 4,581 people and just one neighborhood, Corinth - Charleston is the 93rd largest community in Maine.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Corinth - Charleston is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce 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 (17.30%), management occupations (11.09%), and healthcare (7.46%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 12.64% 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.
Overall, Corinth - Charleston’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Corinth - Charleston is worth considering.
One downside of living in Corinth - Charleston, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.31 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small town, Corinth - Charleston does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Corinth - Charleston who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.31% of the adults in Corinth - Charleston have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Corinth - Charleston in 2022 was $30,575, 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 $122,300 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 Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Corinth - Charleston is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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.
Of particular note, 8.3% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.5% of all neighborhoods in America, with 30.9% 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 and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 12.0% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 2.4% have Native American ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.2% 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 96.2% 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 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 67.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 3.8% 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 68.2% 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, 30.8% 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 30.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.9%), and 18.6% 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 97.5% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.4%).
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 Corinth - Charleston, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (15.4%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (12.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.0%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (7.1%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.9%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.1% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (78.1%) 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 (8.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.