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Mexico - Roxbury, ME

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Overview


Mexico - Roxbury is a very small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 3,280 people and just one neighborhood, Mexico - Roxbury is the 141st largest community in Maine.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Mexico - Roxbury is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 39.55% of the Mexico - Roxbury workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Mexico - Roxbury is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mexico - Roxbury who work in food service (8.55%), office and administrative support (8.39%), and teaching (8.16%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Mexico - Roxbury 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. Mexico - Roxbury has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Mexico - Roxbury than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Mexico - Roxbury may be for you.

Mexico - Roxbury 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

In Mexico - Roxbury, just 12.66% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.

The per capita income in Mexico - Roxbury in 2022 was $28,836, 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 $115,344 for a family of four. However, Mexico - Roxbury contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Mexico - Roxbury is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and French.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 37.0%, which is higher than 97.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

In addition, 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 27 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.3% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more French Canadian and French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 14.7% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 20.5% have French ancestry.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Mexico - Roxbury are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 39.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 89.2% of U.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, 38.2% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 24.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (23.0%), and 12.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.4%).

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 Mexico - Roxbury, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (20.9%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (20.5%), and residents who report French Canadian roots (14.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (11.5%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (8.7%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (53.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (87.7%) 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 (6.9%) . 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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