Minot - Mechanic Falls is a somewhat small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 5,908 people and just one neighborhood, Minot - Mechanic Falls is the 64th largest community in Maine.
Minot - Mechanic Falls is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Minot - Mechanic Falls is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Minot - Mechanic Falls who work in office and administrative support (10.13%), management occupations (9.80%), and sales jobs (8.87%).
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!) Minot - Mechanic Falls 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. Minot - Mechanic Falls has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Minot - Mechanic Falls than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Minot - Mechanic Falls may be for you.
As is often the case in a small town, Minot - Mechanic Falls doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Minot - Mechanic Falls who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.33% of the adults in Minot - Mechanic Falls have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Minot - Mechanic Falls in 2022 was $36,952, which is upper middle income relative to Maine and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $147,808 for a family of four. However, Minot - Mechanic Falls contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Minot - Mechanic Falls home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Minot - Mechanic Falls residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Minot - Mechanic Falls include English, French Canadian, Irish, German, and French.
The most common language spoken in Minot - Mechanic Falls is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Chinese.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French Canadian and English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 14.0% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 28.7% have English 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 Minot - Mechanic Falls are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.8% 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 56.5% 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, 30.2% 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 30.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.0%), and 14.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.6% of households.
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 Minot - Mechanic Falls, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (28.7%). There are also a number of people of French Canadian ancestry (14.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (13.4%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (11.5%), along with some French ancestry residents (10.4%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.7%) 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 (5.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.