Thomaston is a

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, such ...

(CDP) comprising the main village in the

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

of Thomaston in Knox County,

Maine Maine () is a state in the New England and Northeastern regions of the United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and north ...

, United States. The population was 1,875 at the 2010 census, out of 2,781 in the town of Thomaston as a whole.

Geography

The Thomaston CDP is located at (44.078388, −69.18133) in the southern part of the town of Thomaston, on the north side of the

Saint George River The Saint George River is a river in Maine with a watershed of in a unique and historic area of mountains, sea coast, lakes, tidal streams and inlets. The origin of the Saint George River is the outflow of Saint George Lake () in Liberty. The ...

where it reaches tidewater.

U.S. Route 1 U.S. Route 1 or U.S. Highway 1 (US 1) is a major north–south United States Numbered Highway that serves the East Coast of the United States. It runs from Key West, Florida, north to Fort Kent, Maine, at the Canadian border, making i ...

is Main Street through the village, leading northeast (northbound) to Rockland and northwest (southbound) to

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Maine State Route 131 State Route 131 (SR 131) is a state route in the U.S. state of Maine. Its southern terminus is in the St. George community of Port Clyde, at a dead end near the Port Clyde Harbor. Its northern terminus is in Swanville, at the intersec ...

follows Route 1 along Main Street but leads northwest up Oyster River Road to the eastern part of Warren and south out High Street five miles to

St. George Saint George (Greek: Γεώργιος (Geórgios), Latin: Georgius, Arabic: القديس جرجس; died 23 April 303), also George of Lydda, was a Christian who is venerated as a saint in Christianity. According to tradition he was a soldier ...

. According to the

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, the Thomaston CDP has a total area of , of which are land and , or 1.98%, are water.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 2,714 people, 1,013 households, and 583 families residing in the CDP. The population density was . There were 1,100 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the CDP was 97.13%

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, 0.81%

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African American African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ens ...

, 0.29% Native American, 0.66%

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, 0.04%

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, 0.07% from

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, and 0.99% from two or more races.

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of any race were 0.55% of the population. There were 1,013 households, out of which 25.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.3% were married couples living together, 10.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 42.4% were non-families. 35.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 18.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.25 and the average family size was 2.90. In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 18.6% under the age of 18, 9.0% from 18 to 24, 31.9% from 25 to 44, 24.7% from 45 to 64, and 15.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females, there were 121.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 127.6 males. The median income for a household in the CDP was $30,549, and the median income for a family was $41,058. Males had a median income of $29,375 versus $22,067 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $16,564. About 8.1% of families and 14.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 13.5% of those under age 18 and 17.9% of those age 65 or over.

References

{{authority control Census-designated places in Maine Census-designated places in Knox County, Maine Thomaston, Maine