American Woolen Company Foxcroft Mill · Photo: Magicpiano · CC BY-SA 3.0Fewer people are out of work in Dover-Foxcroft (2.7%) than in 75% of U.S. towns
Measured by household income, Dover-Foxcroft is behind 68% of U.S. towns. Dover-Foxcroft grades C for jobs and income and B for walkability. Working residents average 15 minutes each way; Maine averages 25, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Dover-Foxcroft and work: the main findings
Commutes from Dover-Foxcroft are quick
The average trip to work takes 15 minutes, against 25 across Maine. That’s about 77 hours a year less on the road than the typical Maine worker, and quicker than any town next door (19 to 48 minutes). Time on the road ↓
Dover-Foxcroft’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Dover-Foxcroft is Bangor, 31 miles away as the crow flies. 10% of working residents (186) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
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.
What’s behind Dover-Foxcroft’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Dover-Foxcroft is better than 29% of U.S. towns, #116 of 143 in Maine. Unemployment holds Dover-Foxcroft’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 8% of U.S. towns).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Dover-Foxcroft could be anywhere from D to B−.
Each way, about 15 minutes from Dover-Foxcroft
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dover-Foxcroft workers work from home, vs 16% across Maine. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,677 commuters (the 13% 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.
The commute from Dover-Foxcroft, by distance
About 21% 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.
In and out of Dover-Foxcroft on a workday
On a workday 1,163 residents head out to work, 618 work right here, and 1,253 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 (1.05 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
10% of working residents work in Bangor
Where Dover-Foxcroft clocks in
10% of workers
8% of workers
3% 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 1,871 jobs based in Dover-Foxcroft
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dover-Foxcroft, 2013 → 2023: 2,237 → 1,871. 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 Dover-Foxcroft’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute in Dover-Foxcroft is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Dover-Foxcroft is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns, #49 of 143 in Maine. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.0% across Maine, on an EPA index of 6.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,918 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). 6.1% of Dover-Foxcroft households have no vehicle (Maine 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Dover-Foxcroft’s commuters take a bus or train.
Dover-Foxcroft next to U.S. towns of 3,100 to 6,000: 2,950th of 4,000 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 350 | North Yarmouth ME | 4,424 | $129K | 4.8% | 1.9% | 7% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 746 | Arundel ME | 4,596 | $102K | 5.9% | 3.0% | 9% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 778 | Hollis ME | 5,003 | $96K | 5.7% | 1.8% | 6% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,948 | Shenandoah Farms VA | 4,179 | $99K | 21.0% | 5.2% | 1% | C |
| 2,949 | Iuka MS | 3,105 | $49K | 19.6% | 1.5% | 21% | C |
| 2,950 | Dover-Foxcroft ME | 4,463 | $63K | 15.1% | 2.7% | 35% | C |
| 2,951 | Cambria CA | 5,978 | $99K | 10.5% | 8.3% | 35% | C |
| 2,952 | Utqiaġvik AK | 4,640 | $115K | 11.0% | 9.0% | — | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,000 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Dover-Foxcroft, the top three, the last and three more from Maine.
Next door is work for 10% of Dover-Foxcroft
The biggest share goes to Guilford (8%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Dover-Foxcroft workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dover-Foxcroft | – | C | B | 15 min | $63,344 |
| Bowerbank | under 2% | — | — | 48 min | — |
| Sangerville | under 2% | D | C+ | 20 min | $50,313 |
| Sebec | 2% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Garland | under 2% | D− | D | 26 min | $51,094 |
| Guilford | 8% | D | C+ | 19 min | $53,173 |
Same-state neighbors only. Bowerbank and Sebec: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Dover-Foxcroft’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 Dover-Foxcroft: questions
What is the median household income in Dover-Foxcroft?
$63,344 (±$6,469) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,733 across Maine and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dover-Foxcroft?
15.1%, against 10.7% across Maine and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dover-Foxcroft?
15 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Maine and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dover-Foxcroft work?
35% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bangor (10%, 31 mi), Guilford (8%, 7 mi), Augusta (3%, 64 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Dover-Foxcroft walkable?
Dover-Foxcroft is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.0 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Dover-Foxcroft without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dover-Foxcroft, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dover-Foxcroft
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.