Household incomes in Easton trail those of 84% of U.S. towns
Home is the office for 4% of workers; Maine has 16%. 15.1% of residents are in poverty, where Maine as a whole has 10.7%. Easton grades D for jobs and income and C− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Easton stands out on work
Much of Easton works one town over
50% of working residents work in a town that borders Easton: Presque Isle (36%), Fort Fairfield (11%) and Mars Hill (3%). Next door ↓
Easton makes and builds things
84% of the jobs based in Easton are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Easton residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 20%. The jobs ↓
The jobs in Easton pay better than its residents’ jobs
72% of the jobs based in Easton pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 52% of the jobs Easton residents hold. 90% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Easton. The jobs ↓
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 508 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Easton
On income, poverty and job access, Easton is better than 9% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Easton’s grade.
Unemployment (5.7%) is left out: Easton’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, Easton could be anywhere from D− to C.
The jobs
618 jobs are based in Easton.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Easton, 2013 → 2023: 729 → 618. 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 Easton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Easton by day and by night
On a workday 446 residents head out to work, 62 work right here, and 556 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 (1.22 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.
36% of working residents work in Presque Isle
Where Easton clocks in
36% of workers
11% of workers
11% 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 long Easton spends getting to work: about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Easton workers work from home, vs 16% across Maine. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 542 commuters (the 4% 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 it is to work from Easton
About 20% 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 Easton, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Easton is more walkable than 20% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.0% across Maine, on an EPA index of 4.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 565 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). 9.6% of Easton households have no vehicle (Maine 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Easton’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800, Easton ranks 4,517th of 5,400 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 428 | Ogunquit ME | 1,606 | $114K | 3.2% | 0.0% | 22% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 460 | Pownal ME | 1,645 | $104K | 5.5% | 0.7% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 894 | Edgecomb ME | 1,214 | $109K | 5.6% | 3.1% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,515 | Nebo NC | 1,670 | $50K | 16.9% | 0.0% | 2% | D |
| 4,516 | Montour Falls NY | 1,498 | $51K | 23.7% | 14.7% | 8% | D |
| 4,517 | Easton ME | 1,312 | $53K | 15.1% | 5.7% | 12% | D |
| 4,518 | Summerhill Township PA | 1,203 | $59K | 18.0% | 3.5% | 5% | D |
| 4,519 | Clayton NY | 1,656 | $61K | 19.5% | 2.9% | 25% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Easton, the top three, the last and three more from Maine.
Next door is work for 50% of Easton
The biggest share goes to Presque Isle (36%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Easton workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Easton | – | D | C− | 20 min | $53,309 |
| Presque Isle | 36% | C− | B | 14 min | $55,768 |
| Mars Hill | 3% | C− | D | 21 min | $65,273 |
| Fort Fairfield | 11% | C− | D | 17 min | $70,852 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Easton’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 Easton: questions
What is the median household income in Easton?
$53,309 (±$11,429) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,733 across Maine and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Easton?
15.1%, against 10.7% across Maine and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Easton?
20 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Maine and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Easton work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Presque Isle (36%, 8 mi), Caribou (11%, 15 mi), Fort Fairfield (11%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Easton walkable?
Easton is more walkable than 20% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Easton 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 Easton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Easton
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.