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Cornville - Canaan, ME

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Overview


Cornville - Canaan is a very small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 3,566 people and just one neighborhood, Cornville - Canaan is the 130th largest community in Maine.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Cornville - Canaan isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Cornville - Canaan are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Cornville - Canaan is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Cornville - Canaan who work in teaching (12.63%), office and administrative support (10.90%), and management occupations (10.40%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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, Cornville - Canaan is worth considering.

One downside of living in Cornville - Canaan, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.96 minutes every day commuting to work.

As is often the case in a small town, Cornville - Canaan doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Cornville - Canaan who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 25.86% of adults in Cornville - Canaan have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Cornville - Canaan in 2022 was $31,323, 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 $125,292 for a family of four. However, Cornville - Canaan contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Cornville - Canaan home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cornville - Canaan residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Cornville - Canaan include English, French, Irish, French Canadian, and German.

The most common language spoken in Cornville - Canaan is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and French.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 97.0% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

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 90.4% 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, 18.5% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 7.3% have French Canadian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.1% 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 Cornville - Canaan are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 40.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 18.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.7% 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, 39.0% 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 26.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.5%), and 14.1% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian, French and Polish.

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 Cornville - Canaan, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (23.6%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (18.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (16.7%), and some of the residents are also of French Canadian ancestry (7.3%), along with some German ancestry residents (4.2%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.3%) 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 (12.2%) . 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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