Cornville has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Home is the office for 6% of workers, where Maine as a whole has 16%. 53 jobs are based in Cornville for 631 working residents. Jobs and income earn Cornville C; getting around on foot earns it D.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Cornville
Cornville is a place people come home to
There are 53 jobs based in Cornville, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Cornville has about 800 people in it, 42% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Cornville and Skowhegan trade workers both ways
Skowhegan is the top workplace for Cornville residents (21%) and also where the most people who work in Cornville come from (15% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
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 631 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Cornville
On income, poverty and job access, Cornville is better than 29% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Cornville’s grade up ($79,926, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 12% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (3.4%) is left out: Cornville’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Cornville could be anywhere from D to B.
The daily commute in and out of Cornville
On a workday 625 residents head out to work, 6 work right here, and 47 people come in from elsewhere.
About 800 people are in Cornville on a workday afternoon, 42% 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.
21% of working residents work in Skowhegan
Where Cornville clocks in
21% of workers
10% of workers
6% 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.
51% of the jobs in Cornville make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cornville, 2013 → 2023: 103 → 53. 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 Cornville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Cornville: about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cornville workers work from home, vs 16% across Maine. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 791 commuters (the 6% 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 Cornville goes to work
About 24% 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.
For most of Cornville, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cornville is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.0% across Maine, on an EPA index of 4.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 841 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). 10.2% of Cornville households have no vehicle (Maine 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Cornville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Cornville next to U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900: 3,413th of 5,877 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,411 | Lake Waccamaw NC | 1,239 | $73K | 9.3% | 4.0% | 7% | C |
| 3,412 | Newville PA | 1,409 | $59K | 17.0% | 6.0% | 2% | C |
| 3,413 | Cornville ME | 1,378 | $80K | 12.2% | 3.4% | 1% | C |
| 3,414 | DeRuyter NY | 1,257 | $75K | 9.1% | 0.8% | 6% | C |
| 3,415 | Cedarville AR | 1,458 | $60K | 9.5% | 1.7% | 4% | 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 Cornville, the top three, the last and three more from Maine.
Next door is work for 29% of Cornville
The biggest share goes to Skowhegan (21%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Cornville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cornville | – | C | D | 28 min | $79,926 |
| Skowhegan | 21% | C− | A− | 25 min | $49,485 |
| Athens | under 3% | — | — | 29 min | — |
| Madison | 3% | C+ | B | 27 min | $61,747 |
| Hartland | under 3% | D | C− | 30 min | $46,141 |
| Canaan | 5% | C | C | 34 min | $57,781 |
Same-state neighbors only. Athens: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Cornville’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 Cornville: questions
What is the median household income in Cornville?
$79,926 (±$17,609) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,733 across Maine and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cornville?
12.2%, against 10.7% across Maine and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cornville?
28 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Maine and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cornville work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Skowhegan (21%, 7 mi), Waterville (10%, 22 mi), Augusta (6%, 37 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cornville walkable?
Cornville is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.5 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cornville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cornville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cornville
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.