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Rockwood - Moscow, ME

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Overview


Rockwood - Moscow is a very small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 1,312 people and just one neighborhood, Rockwood - Moscow is the 244th largest community in Maine.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Rockwood - Moscow isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Rockwood - Moscow are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Rockwood - Moscow is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rockwood - Moscow who work in office and administrative support (12.63%), food service (8.77%), and management occupations (7.43%).

And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Rockwood - Moscow has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 12.93% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Another notable thing is that Rockwood - Moscow is an extremely popular destination for tourists and seasonal residents. So much of the population is seasonal such that the town’s population swells significantly during the vacation season, and drops again when the season ends. Because of this, much of the local economy is centered around tourism; some businesses may be operated only during the high season. During the low season, year-round residents will notice that the city is a substantially quieter place to live.

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!) Rockwood - Moscow 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. Rockwood - Moscow has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Rockwood - Moscow than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Rockwood - Moscow may be for you.

One downside of living in Rockwood - Moscow is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Rockwood - Moscow, the average commute to work is 30.41 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Rockwood - Moscow 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.

Demographics

The education level of Rockwood - Moscow citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 23.21% of adults in Rockwood - Moscow have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Rockwood - Moscow in 2022 was $32,294, which is lower middle income relative to Maine, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $129,176 for a family of four. However, Rockwood - Moscow contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Rockwood - Moscow is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

Vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 70.6% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 99.7% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.

In addition, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 0 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 99.6% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more French Canadian and Lithuanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 9.7% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 2.3% have Lithuanian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.4% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Rockwood - Moscow are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 32.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 83.7% 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, 31.5% 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 30.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.9%), and 13.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 96.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

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 Rockwood - Moscow, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (18.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (18.6%), and residents who report French roots (10.6%), and some of the residents are also of French Canadian ancestry (9.7%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (4.2%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (31.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (77.3%) 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 (6.5%) . 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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