Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Chesterville commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
Chesterville has 150 jobs, and 617 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Chesterville C−; getting around on foot earns it C+. 7% of workers have no commute at all; Maine has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Chesterville: the gist
Chesterville and Farmington trade workers both ways
Farmington is the top workplace for Chesterville residents (15%) and also where the most people who work in Chesterville come from (23% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Chesterville is a place people come home to
There are 150 jobs based in Chesterville, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Chesterville has about 910 people in it, 34% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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 617 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Chesterville’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Chesterville is better than 17% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Chesterville’s grade up (12.0%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 12% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (2.9%) is left out: Chesterville’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, Chesterville could be anywhere from D to C+.
15% of working residents work in Farmington
Where Chesterville clocks in
15% of workers
9% 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.
How many people are in Chesterville by day
On a workday 603 residents head out to work, 14 work right here, and 136 people come in from elsewhere.
About 910 people are in Chesterville on a workday afternoon, 34% 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.
The kinds of work in Chesterville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Chesterville, 2013 → 2023: 165 → 150. 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 Chesterville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Chesterville spends getting to work: about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Chesterville workers work from home, vs 16% across Maine. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 565 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 far Chesterville’s workers travel
About 27% 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.
Getting around Chesterville: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Chesterville is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.0% across Maine, on an EPA index of 5.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 608 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). 2.2% of Chesterville households have no vehicle (Maine 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Chesterville’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Chesterville ranks: 4,246th of 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 475 | Ogunquit ME | 1,606 | $114K | 3.2% | 0.0% | 22% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 511 | Pownal ME | 1,645 | $104K | 5.5% | 0.7% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 984 | Edgecomb ME | 1,214 | $109K | 5.6% | 3.1% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,244 | Kinmundy Township IL | 1,084 | $58K | 12.6% | 6.9% | 4% | C− |
| 4,245 | Grant Township IN | 1,094 | $60K | 12.2% | 3.4% | 6% | C− |
| 4,246 | Chesterville ME | 1,378 | $62K | 12.0% | 2.9% | 2% | C− |
| 4,247 | Porter ME | 1,652 | $60K | 9.8% | 3.1% | 6% | C− |
| 4,248 | Center Township PA | 1,065 | $68K | 12.1% | 3.5% | 8% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | 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 Chesterville, the top three, the last and three more from Maine.
Work next door: 24% of Chesterville’s workers
The biggest share goes to Farmington (15%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Chesterville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chesterville | – | C− | C+ | 25 min | $61,635 |
| Vienna | under 3% | — | — | 62 min | — |
| New Sharon | 5% | C | C+ | 30 min | $63,889 |
| Mount Vernon | under 3% | C+ | D | 32 min | $74,395 |
| Farmington | 15% | D | A− | 27 min | $54,276 |
| Jay | under 3% | C+ | C | 21 min | $70,238 |
| Fayette | under 3% | C− | B | 33 min | $59,500 |
| Wilton | 4% | D | C− | 28 min | $63,396 |
Same-state neighbors only. Vienna: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Chesterville’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 Chesterville: questions
What is the median household income in Chesterville?
$61,635 (±$10,380) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,733 across Maine and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Chesterville?
12.0%, against 10.7% across Maine and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Chesterville?
25 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Maine and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Chesterville work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Farmington (15%, 10 mi), Augusta (9%, 23 mi), Portland (7%, 63 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Chesterville walkable?
Chesterville is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.7 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Chesterville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Chesterville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Chesterville
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.