Overview Fayette - Wayne is a very small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 2,365 people and just one neighborhood, Fayette - Wayne is the 198th largest community in Maine. Occupations and Workforce Unlike some towns, Fayette - Wayne isn鈥檛 mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Fayette - Wayne are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Fayette - Wayne is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fayette - Wayne who work in management occupations (18.02%), office and administrative support (10.26%), and teaching (9.88%). Also of interest is that Fayette - Wayne has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 23.32% 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 Fayette - Wayne is an extremely popular destination for tourists and seasonal residents. So much of the population is seasonal such that the town鈥檚 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. Because of many things, Fayette - Wayne is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Fayette - Wayne really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Fayette - Wayne perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly 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!) Fayette - Wayne 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. Fayette - Wayne has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Fayette - Wayne than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Fayette - Wayne may be for you. One downside of living in Fayette - Wayne, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.21 minutes every day commuting to work. As is often the case in a small town, Fayette - Wayne doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute. Fayette - Wayne Demographics The education level of Fayette - Wayne ranks among the highest in the nation. Of the 25-and-older adult population in Fayette - Wayne, 43.43% have at least a bachelor's degree. The typical US community has just 21.84% of its adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree. The per capita income in Fayette - Wayne in 2022 was $41,035, which is upper middle income relative to Maine and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $164,140 for a family of four. However, Fayette - Wayne contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Fayette - Wayne home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fayette - Wayne residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Fayette - Wayne include English, Irish, German, French, and French Canadian. The most common language spoken in Fayette - Wayne is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.