Magazine puts town among Maine’s top six places to live
ARUNDEL — In the March issue Best Places to Live, Down East magazine listed Arundel as one of six best places to live in Maine.
Other selected towns include Gorham, Bowdoinham, Hampden, Hope and Turner.
Arundel has approximately 4,100 residents with a median age of 43, according to Down East. Qualifying factors included the exclusion of towns where median household incomes are less than the 95 percent of the state’s median income, which is approximately $48,000; the median household income of Arundel families, according to Down East and the United States Census Bureau, is $60,156. The median home price is $218,000. Approximately 5.5 percent of families are below the poverty line in Arundel.
Statistics also used to determine the top six included towns with graduation rates higher than the 85 percent state median (Arundel’s graduation rate is 86.5 percent). Anecdotal evidence contributed to the top six selections to help writers gauge, among other things, the “intangible qualities like sense of community,” according to the article.
Referring to Arundel’s secession from Kennebunkport as an “effort to preserve its agrarian roots,” the article states: “The town — which reverted to Kennebunkport’s 18th-century name, Arundel, in 1957 — remains a rural outpost, a rare pastoral respite along the I-95/coastal corridor in York County that residents prize.”
Also included is the mention of Bentley’s Saloon on Route 1, The Landing School, and the historical novelist Kenneth Roberts of Kennebunkport, who wrote a book simply titled, “Arundel.”
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