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Mars Hill - Blaine, ME

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Overview


Mars Hill - Blaine is a very small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 2,495 people and just one neighborhood, Mars Hill - Blaine is the 187th largest community in Maine.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Mars Hill - Blaine isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Mars Hill - Blaine are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Mars Hill - Blaine is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mars Hill - Blaine who work in farm management occupations (11.08%), office and administrative support (9.61%), and management occupations (9.61%).

You will also find that a lot of people in Mars Hill - Blaine work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 10.37% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Mars Hill - Blaine’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

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, Mars Hill - Blaine has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Mars Hill - Blaine a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Mars Hill - Blaine is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.43% of adults 25 and older in Mars Hill - Blaine have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Mars Hill - Blaine in 2022 was $30,506, 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 $122,024 for a family of four. However, Mars Hill - Blaine contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Mars Hill - Blaine home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mars Hill - Blaine residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Mars Hill - Blaine include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and French.

The most common language spoken in Mars Hill - Blaine is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 99.2% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 93.4% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish and Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry and 1.4% have Canadian ancestry.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Mars Hill - Blaine are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 55.9% of U.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, 33.2% 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 23.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.7%), and 15.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.5% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.8%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Mars Hill - Blaine, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (19.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.3%), and residents who report German roots (7.0%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (6.8%), along with some French ancestry residents (5.8%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (71.7%) 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 (17.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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