Photo: Whitehouse27 · CC BY-SA 4.0There are 1.9 jobs in Boothbay Harbor for every working resident, and 1,007 people commute in
There are 1,189 jobs in Boothbay Harbor for 619 working residents. Boothbay Harbor grades D for jobs and income and A for walkability. About one in four work in Boothbay Harbor itself; outside it, Boothbay draws the most (13%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Boothbay Harbor in brief
Boothbay Harbor is where the jobs are
Boothbay Harbor has 1,189 jobs, 1.9 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Boothbay Harbor are quick
The average trip to work takes 14 minutes, against 25 across Maine. That’s about 84 hours a year less on the road than the typical Maine worker. Time on the road ↓
Boothbay Harbor’s workforce skews older
40% of Boothbay Harbor’s working residents are 55 or older. That’s about two in five. The jobs ↓
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 619 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Boothbay Harbor
Household income holds Boothbay Harbor’s grade up ($62,800, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 14% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (1.9%) is left out: Boothbay Harbor’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, Boothbay Harbor could be anywhere from D− to C.
The daily commute in and out of Boothbay Harbor
On a workday 437 residents head out to work and 182 work right here.
About 2,700 people are in Boothbay Harbor on a workday afternoon, 27% more than live here.
1.9 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
About 14 minutes each way for Boothbay Harbor’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Boothbay Harbor workers work from home, vs 16% across Maine. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 571 commuters (the 17% 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.
What Boothbay Harbor’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Boothbay Harbor, 2013 → 2023: 1,400 → 1,189. 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 Boothbay Harbor’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The towns that send workers to Boothbay Harbor
Where Boothbay Harbor clocks in
13% of workers
6% of workers
5% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Boothbay Harbor
About 15% 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.
Boothbay Harbor is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Boothbay Harbor is more walkable than 87% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 11.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.0% across Maine, on an EPA index of 8.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 689 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). 4.3% of Boothbay Harbor households have no vehicle (Maine 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Boothbay Harbor’s commuters take a bus or train.
4,183rd of 5,148: where Boothbay Harbor ranks among U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 268 | Dayton ME | 2,182 | $114K | 3.7% | 0.2% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 551 | Ogunquit ME | 1,606 | $114K | 3.2% | 0.0% | 22% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 600 | Pownal ME | 1,645 | $104K | 5.5% | 0.7% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,181 | Le Grand CA | 1,636 | $46K | 16.0% | 13.2% | 7% | D |
| 4,182 | Shepherd TX | 1,942 | $54K | 16.7% | 13.4% | 12% | D |
| 4,183 | Boothbay Harbor ME | 2,103 | $63K | 16.1% | 1.9% | 29% | D |
| 4,184 | Bingham Township MI | 1,597 | $61K | 13.6% | 5.6% | 5% | D |
| 4,185 | Garfield Township MI | 1,860 | $69K | 16.8% | 9.2% | 3% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,148 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Boothbay Harbor, the top three, the last and three more from Maine.
Work next door: 18% of Boothbay Harbor’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Boothbay Harbor workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boothbay Harbor | – | D | A | 14 min | $62,800 |
| Boothbay | 13% | B− | B− | 13 min | $60,320 |
| Southport | 5% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Westport Island | under 2% | — | — | 29 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Southport and Westport Island: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Boothbay. Darker towns draw more of Boothbay Harbor’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 Boothbay Harbor: questions
What is the median household income in Boothbay Harbor?
$62,800 (±$13,205) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,733 across Maine and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Boothbay Harbor?
16.1%, against 10.7% across Maine and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Boothbay Harbor?
14 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Maine and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Boothbay Harbor work?
29% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Boothbay (13%, 7 mi), Portland (6%, 31 mi), Southport (5%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Boothbay Harbor walkable?
Boothbay Harbor is more walkable than 87% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.1 out of 20, and 11% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Boothbay Harbor without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Boothbay Harbor, from the people who make the trip.
More of Boothbay Harbor
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.