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. 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!) Buxton 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. Buxton has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Buxton than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Buxton may be for you. One downside of living in Buxton, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.28 minutes every day commuting to work. Being a small town, Buxton does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In terms of college education, Buxton is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 31.44% of adults in Buxton have a college 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.
