Buxton is a somewhat small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 8,538 people and two associated neighborhoods, Buxton is the 35th largest community in Maine.Buxton is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Buxton is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Buxton who work in management occupations (11.52%), sales jobs (8.70%), and office and administrative support (8.36%). Also of interest is that Buxton has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.37% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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, Buxton has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Buxton a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. One downside of living in Buxton is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Buxton, the average commute to work is 33.28 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Buxton 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 Buxton citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 31.44% of adults in Buxton have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Buxton in 2022 was $45,497, which is upper middle income relative to Maine and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $181,988 for a family of four. Buxton is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Buxton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Buxton residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Buxton include English, Irish, French, French Canadian, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Buxton is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Portuguese.
