Photo: H.L.I.T. · CC BY 2.0Southwest Harbor draws about two in five of Cranberry Isles’ working residents
For 6% of workers, the job is at home, against 16% across Maine. Only 4% work in Cranberry Isles itself; outside it, Southwest Harbor draws the most (40%, 4 miles). A typical one-way commute from Cranberry Isles lasts 20 minutes (Maine 25, U.S. 26).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Cranberry Isles on a workday afternoon
On a workday 46 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 44 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.96 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where Cranberry Isles goes to work
Where Cranberry Isles clocks in
13% 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 kinds of work in Cranberry Isles
46 jobs are based in Cranberry Isles.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cranberry Isles, 2014 → 2024: 41 → 46. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Cranberry Isles’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 20 minutes to work from Cranberry Isles
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cranberry Isles workers work from home, vs 16% across Maine. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 100 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 Cranberry Isles goes to work
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Cranberry Isles and its neighbors: 50% work next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Cranberry Isles workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cranberry Isles | – | — | — | 20 min | $65,000 |
| Mount Desert | 10% | B− | A− | 18 min | $92,813 |
| Southwest Harbor | 40% | C− | B+ | 16 min | $59,205 |
| Frenchboro | under 3% | — | — | 16 min | — |
| Northeast Harbor | under 3% | — | — | 11 min | — |
| Winter Harbor | under 3% | — | — | 25 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Frenchboro and Winter Harbor: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Northeast Harbor: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Southwest Harbor. Darker towns draw more of Cranberry Isles’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 2024, 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 Cranberry Isles: questions
What is the median household income in Cranberry Isles?
$65,000 (±$37,485) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,733 across Maine and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cranberry Isles?
4.6%, against 10.7% across Maine and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cranberry Isles?
20 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Maine and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cranberry Isles work?
4% work in town.
Can you get around Cranberry Isles without a car?
29% of commuters take transit and 16% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cranberry Isles, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cranberry Isles
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.