Newburgh is a very small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 1,649 people and just one neighborhood, Newburgh is the 234th largest community in Maine.
Newburgh is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Newburgh is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Newburgh who work in office and administrative support (14.50%), management occupations (13.76%), and sales jobs (11.92%).
Because of many things, Newburgh is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Newburgh a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Newburgh has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Newburgh’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.
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, Newburgh has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Newburgh a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
As is often the case in a small town, Newburgh doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The overall education level of Newburgh is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 25.15% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Newburgh in 2022 was $41,483, which is upper middle income relative to Maine and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $165,932 for a family of four. However, Newburgh contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Newburgh home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Newburgh residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Newburgh include English, Irish, French Canadian, French, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Newburgh is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and French.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French Canadian and Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.5% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 3.3% have Welsh 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 Newburgh are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 54.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 15.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.3% 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, 42.3% 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 21.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.4%), and 17.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
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 96.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and French.
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 Newburgh, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (16.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.2%), and residents who report French Canadian roots (6.5%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (5.8%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (3.6%), 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 (57.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.3%) 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 (12.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.