Photo: Donna Garo · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Addison commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
Addison has 126 jobs for 375 working residents. The two grades for Addison are D− for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Measured by household income, Addison is behind 87% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs & income in Addison: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Addison is better than 2% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Addison’s grade.
Unemployment (3.0%) is left out: Addison’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Addison could be anywhere from D− to C−.
The daily flow of workers through Addison
On a workday 359 residents head out to work, 16 work right here, and 110 people come in from elsewhere.
About 940 people are in Addison on a workday afternoon, 21% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
11% of working residents work in Harrington
Where Addison clocks in
11% of workers
9% of workers
9% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
What Addison’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Addison, 2013 → 2023: 110 → 126. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Addison’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 27 minutes each way, longer than most of Maine
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Addison workers work from home, vs 16% across Maine. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 387 commuters (the 9% who work from home are left out). Across Maine: 84% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Short hops and long hauls from Addison
About 26% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Addison, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Addison is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Addison near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 425 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 3.2% of Addison households have no vehicle (Maine 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Addison’s commuters take a bus or train.
Addison and other U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 689 | Edgecomb ME | 1,214 | $109K | 5.6% | 3.1% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,052 | Georgetown ME | 1,101 | $84K | 6.3% | 3.5% | 4% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,115 | South Thomaston ME | 1,520 | $87K | 4.2% | 0.0% | 4% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,128 | Goodwater AL | 1,256 | $40K | 36.4% | 6.8% | 9% | D− |
| 4,129 | Glenville WV | 1,047 | $47K | 23.7% | 7.1% | 34% | D− |
| 4,130 | Addison ME | 1,193 | $51K | 22.1% | 3.0% | 4% | D− |
| 4,131 | Ak-Chin Village AZ | 1,132 | $47K | 30.6% | 9.7% | 10% | D− |
| 4,132 | Banks Springs LA | 1,406 | $26K | 65.3% | 11.2% | 11% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Addison, the top three, the last and three more from Maine.
Next door is work for 20% of Addison
The biggest share goes to Harrington (11%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Addison workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Addison | – | D− | C− | 27 min | $50,524 |
| Jonesport | under 4% | D | A− | 18 min | $67,500 |
| Jonesboro | under 4% | — | — | 19 min | — |
| Harrington | 11% | — | — | 20 min | — |
| Beals | under 4% | — | — | 21 min | — |
| Columbia Falls | 9% | — | — | 30 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Jonesboro, Harrington, Beals and Columbia Falls: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Addison’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Addison: questions
What is the median household income in Addison?
$50,524 (±$8,334) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,733 across Maine and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Addison?
22.1%, against 10.7% across Maine and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Addison?
27 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Maine and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Addison work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Harrington (11%, 5 mi), Machias (9%, 18 mi), Columbia Falls (9%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Addison walkable?
Addison is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Addison without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Addison, from the people who make the trip.
More of Addison
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.