Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Most of Baring plantation commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
Employers in Baring plantation report 20 jobs for 72 working residents. Hardly any stay in Baring plantation for work; outside it, Calais is the main destination (18%, 6 miles). Working from home is the commute for 2% of workers, next to 16% for Maine as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Baring plantation: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 72 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 20 people come in from elsewhere.
About 150 people are in Baring plantation on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
Where Baring plantation’s working residents head each day
Where Baring plantation clocks in
18% of workers
10% of workers
8% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Baring plantation
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Baring plantation, 2013 → 2023: 34 → 20. 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 Baring plantation’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Baring plantation: about 13 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Baring plantation workers work from home, vs 16% across Maine. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 83 commuters (the 2% 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 miles Baring plantation commutes
About 38% 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.
Next door is work for 27% of Baring plantation
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Baring plantation workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baring plantation | – | — | — | 13 min | — |
| Baileyville | 6% | D | C+ | 12 min | $60,000 |
| Calais | 18% | D | B+ | 16 min | $64,096 |
| Meddybemps | under 2% | — | — | 31 min | — |
| Charlotte | 3% | — | — | 24 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Meddybemps and Charlotte: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Calais. Darker towns draw more of Baring plantation’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 Baring plantation: questions
What is the poverty rate in Baring plantation?
22.9%, against 10.7% across Maine and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Baring plantation?
13 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Maine and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Baring plantation work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Calais (18%, 6 mi), Machias (10%, 28 mi), Bangor (8%, 75 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Baring plantation without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Baring plantation, from the people who make the trip.
More of Baring plantation
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.