Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.6 jobs for every working resident, most of Dixfield works elsewhere
5% of workers work from home, against 16% across Maine. Employers in Dixfield report 556 jobs; 985 of its residents have a job. Dixfield grades C for jobs and income and D for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Dixfield in brief
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Dixfield
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Dixfield is better than 26% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Dixfield’s grade up (4.0%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 6% of U.S. towns).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Dixfield could be anywhere from D to B−.
Making and building: 55% of jobs based in Dixfield
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dixfield, 2013 → 2023: 480 → 556. 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 Dixfield’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Dixfield by day and by night
On a workday 892 residents head out to work, 93 work right here, and 463 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,000 people are in Dixfield on a workday afternoon, 18% 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.
11% of working residents work in Rumford
Where Dixfield clocks in
11% of workers
7% 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.
Time on the road from Dixfield: 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 Dixfield workers work from home, vs 16% across Maine. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 982 commuters (the 5% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Dixfield
About 26% 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.
Most trips from Dixfield start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Dixfield is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Dixfield near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,034 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). 8.5% of Dixfield households have no vehicle (Maine 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Dixfield’s commuters take a bus or train.
Dixfield is 3,479th of 4,995 U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,200 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 283 | Dayton ME | 2,182 | $114K | 3.7% | 0.2% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 709 | Newcastle ME | 1,915 | $90K | 3.5% | 0.0% | 10% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 714 | West Bath ME | 1,970 | $103K | 3.2% | 3.5% | 4% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,477 | McLeansboro IL | 2,585 | $45K | 22.3% | 1.2% | 25% | C |
| 3,478 | Carterville MO | 1,869 | $59K | 18.3% | 4.0% | <1% | C |
| 3,479 | Dixfield ME | 2,396 | $71K | 14.0% | 4.0% | 9% | C |
| 3,480 | Ford Heights IL | 1,751 | $36K | 26.6% | 13.9% | 3% | C |
| 3,481 | Abbotsford WI | 2,413 | $69K | 9.5% | 9.3% | 22% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,995 | 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 Dixfield, the top three, the last and three more from Maine.
Next door to Dixfield
The biggest share goes to Mexico (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Dixfield workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dixfield | – | C | D | 25 min | $70,613 |
| Mexico | 4% | C− | A− | 24 min | $55,727 |
| Peru | under 3% | C− | C | 29 min | $66,827 |
| Carthage | under 3% | — | — | 25 min | — |
| Wilton | under 3% | D | C− | 28 min | $63,396 |
| Canton | 2% | C− | C− | 35 min | $52,458 |
Same-state neighbors only. Carthage: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Dixfield’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 Dixfield: questions
What is the median household income in Dixfield?
$70,613 (±$9,070) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,733 across Maine and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dixfield?
14.0%, against 10.7% across Maine and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dixfield?
25 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Maine and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dixfield work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Rumford (11%, 12 mi), Lewiston (7%, 33 mi), Auburn (6%, 32 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Dixfield walkable?
Dixfield is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Dixfield without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dixfield, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dixfield
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.