Hermon is a town in
Penobscot CountyPenobscot County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maine. For U.S. Census statistical purposes, it is part of the Bangor, Maine, New England County Metropolitan Area . As of 2010, the population was 153,923...
,
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,
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. The population was 5,416 at the 2010 census.
Geography
According to the
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, the town has a total area of 36.8 square miles (95.3 km²), of which, 35.9 square miles (93 km²) of it is land and 0.9 square miles (2.3 km²) of it (2.34%) is water.
Historic building
The District No. 5 Schoolhouse (1880) is listed on the
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.
Demographics
As of the
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of 2000, there were 4,437 people, 1,666 households, and 1,294 families residing in the town. The
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was 123.5 people per square mile (47.7/km²). There were 1,748 housing units at an average density of 48.7 per square mile (18.8/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 98.08% White, 0.16% African American, 0.29% Native American, 0.43% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.09% from
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, and 0.92% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.52% of the population.
There were 1,666 households out of which 39.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 65.5% were
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living together, 8.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 22.3% were non-families. 16.7% of all households were made up of individuals and 6.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.66 and the average family size was 2.98.
In the town the population was spread out with 27.1% under the age of 18, 6.0% from 18 to 24, 32.0% from 25 to 44, 25.0% from 45 to 64, and 9.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females there were 94.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.9 males.
The median income for a household in the town was $47,206, and the median income for a family was $50,500. Males had a median income of $34,620 versus $23,958 for females. The
per capita incomePer capita income or income per person is a measure of mean income within an economic aggregate, such as a country or city. It is calculated by taking a measure of all sources of income in the aggregate and dividing it by the total population...
for the town was $19,714. About 4.4% of families and 6.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 6.1% of those under age 18 and 5.4% of those age 65 or over.
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