Millinocket is a very small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 4,102 people and just one neighborhood, Millinocket is the 102nd largest community in Maine.
When you are in Millinocket, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 56.00% of Millinocket’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Millinocket is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Millinocket who work in food service (7.29%), management occupations (7.29%), and community and social services (5.19%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 8.62% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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!) Millinocket 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. Millinocket has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Millinocket than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Millinocket may be for you.
Millinocket 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.
The education level of Millinocket citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 19.75% of adults 25 and older in Millinocket have a college degree.
The per capita income in Millinocket in 2022 was $29,094, 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 $116,376 for a family of four. However, Millinocket contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Millinocket home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Millinocket residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Millinocket include English, Irish, Scottish, Italian, and French.
The most common language spoken in Millinocket is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 99.6% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 13.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry and 6.2% have French Canadian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 12.7% 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 98.8% 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 Millinocket are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 28.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 79.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 55.8% 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 21.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.2%), and 7.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 99.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Millinocket, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (18.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.0%), and residents who report Scottish roots (13.9%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (11.1%), along with some French ancestry residents (10.5%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (55.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (75.4%) 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 (15.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.