Cornish - Parsonsfield is a very small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 3,389 people and just one neighborhood, Cornish - Parsonsfield is the 137th largest community in Maine.
Cornish - Parsonsfield is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Cornish - Parsonsfield is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cornish - Parsonsfield who work in management occupations (17.32%), teaching (12.78%), and sales jobs (10.56%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 12.21% 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.
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!) Cornish - Parsonsfield 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. Cornish - Parsonsfield has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Cornish - Parsonsfield than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Cornish - Parsonsfield may be for you.
One downside of living in Cornish - Parsonsfield, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 36.80 minutes every day commuting to work.
The population of Cornish - Parsonsfield overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Cornish - Parsonsfield, 22.62% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Cornish - Parsonsfield in 2022 was $32,559, 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 $130,236 for a family of four. However, Cornish - Parsonsfield contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Cornish - Parsonsfield home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cornish - Parsonsfield residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Cornish - Parsonsfield include English, Irish, French, German, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Cornish - Parsonsfield is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and French.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 41 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.8% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more English and French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 26.4% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry and 12.0% have French ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.5% 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 96.4% 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 Cornish - Parsonsfield are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 43.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.2% 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 58.0% 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, 45.0% 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 24.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.1%), and 7.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% of households. Some people also speak Italian (7.5%).
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 Cornish - Parsonsfield, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (26.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.9%), and residents who report French roots (12.0%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (10.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (6.7%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (41.2% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (76.1%) 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 (8.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.