Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Household incomes in Baileyville are lower than in 74% of U.S. towns
For jobs and income Baileyville is better than 8% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (C+). Below the poverty line: 15.8% of residents, next to 10.7% for Maine as a whole. Home is the office for 7% of workers, against 16% across Maine.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Baileyville stands out on work
Baileyville makes and builds things
72% of the jobs based in Baileyville are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Baileyville residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 28%. The jobs ↓
Baileyville and Calais trade workers both ways
Calais is the top workplace for Baileyville residents (21%) and also where the most people who work in Baileyville come from (16% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Baileyville are quick
The average trip to work takes 12 minutes, against 25 across Maine. That’s about 100 hours a year less on the road than the typical Maine worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 593 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Baileyville gets the Jobs & income grade it does
Household income holds Baileyville’s grade up ($60,000, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 2% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (10.8%) is left out: Baileyville’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, Baileyville could be anywhere from D− to C.
72% of the jobs in Baileyville make or build things
733 jobs are based in Baileyville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Baileyville, 2013 → 2023: 546 → 733. 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 Baileyville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
21% of working residents work in Calais
Where Baileyville clocks in
21% of workers
7% 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.
The daily trip from Baileyville: about 12 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Baileyville workers work from home, vs 16% across Maine. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 500 commuters (the 7% 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.
How many people are in Baileyville by day
On a workday 417 residents head out to work, 176 work right here, and 557 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Baileyville on a workday afternoon, 11% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.24 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
How many miles Baileyville commutes
About 36% 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.
The commute in Baileyville is mostly behind the wheel
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.0% across Maine, on an EPA index of 5.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 536 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). 2.8% of Baileyville households have no vehicle (Maine 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Baileyville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Baileyville is 4,611th of 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 428 | Ogunquit ME | 1,606 | $114K | 3.2% | 0.0% | 22% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 460 | Pownal ME | 1,645 | $104K | 5.5% | 0.7% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 894 | Edgecomb ME | 1,214 | $109K | 5.6% | 3.1% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,609 | Norwood NY | 1,521 | $54K | 17.2% | 8.4% | 2% | D |
| 4,610 | Darrington WA | 1,500 | $66K | 19.4% | 10.8% | 11% | D |
| 4,611 | Baileyville ME | 1,314 | $60K | 15.8% | 10.8% | 30% | D |
| 4,612 | Caseville Township MI | 1,636 | $59K | 15.6% | 2.5% | 7% | D |
| 4,613 | Clayton Township MI | 1,014 | $51K | 12.7% | 3.6% | 6% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Baileyville, the top three, the last and three more from Maine.
Around Baileyville: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Princeton (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Baileyville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baileyville | – | D | C+ | 12 min | $60,000 |
| Baring plantation | under 2% | — | — | 13 min | — |
| Princeton | 4% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Alexander | under 2% | — | — | 18 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Baring plantation, Princeton and Alexander: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Baileyville’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 Baileyville: questions
What is the median household income in Baileyville?
$60,000 (±$19,029) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,733 across Maine and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Baileyville?
15.8%, against 10.7% across Maine and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Baileyville?
12 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Maine and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Baileyville work?
30% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Calais (21%, 11 mi), Caribou (7%, 117 mi), Princeton (4%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Baileyville walkable?
Baileyville is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Baileyville without a car?
0% 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 Baileyville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Baileyville
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.