Palmyra - Detroit is a very small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 2,854 people and just one neighborhood, Palmyra - Detroit is the 164th largest community in Maine.
Unlike some towns, Palmyra - Detroit isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Palmyra - Detroit are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Palmyra - Detroit is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Palmyra - Detroit who work in sales jobs (17.52%), office and administrative support (10.85%), and maintenance occupations (7.78%).
A relatively large number of people in Palmyra - Detroit telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.99% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
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, Palmyra - Detroit has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Palmyra - Detroit a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Palmyra - Detroit does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Palmyra - Detroit are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.93% of adults in Palmyra - Detroit have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Palmyra - Detroit in 2022 was $24,163, which is low income relative to Maine and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $96,652 for a family of four. However, Palmyra - Detroit contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Palmyra - Detroit home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Palmyra - Detroit residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Palmyra - Detroit include English, Irish, French, Italian, and German.
The most common language spoken in Palmyra - Detroit is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Palmyra - Detroit, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.3% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry.
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 Palmyra - Detroit are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 56.8% 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, 32.8% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 28.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.9%), and 14.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.8% of households. Some people also speak Italian (4.2%).
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 Palmyra - Detroit, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (14.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.3%), and residents who report French roots (7.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.7%), along with some German ancestry residents (3.4%), among others.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (85.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.