With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Enfield works elsewhere
290 jobs are based in Enfield, against 602 working residents. Enfield grades C for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Home is the office for 5% of workers (Maine 16%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Enfield
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Enfield
On income, poverty and job access, Enfield is better than 30% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Enfield’s grade up (6.8%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 9% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Enfield’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, Enfield could be anywhere from C− to B−.
18% of working residents work in Lincoln
Where Enfield clocks in
15% of workers
5% 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 a workday changes Enfield
On a workday 548 residents head out to work, 54 work right here, and 236 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Enfield on a workday afternoon, 22% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 37% of the jobs in Enfield
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Enfield, 2013 → 2023: 181 → 290. 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 Enfield’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Enfield: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Enfield workers work from home, vs 16% across Maine. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 558 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.
Half of Enfield commutes less than 29 miles
About 27% 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.
Few in Enfield walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Enfield is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Enfield 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 588 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). 3.5% of Enfield households have no vehicle (Maine 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Enfield’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900, Enfield ranks 3,353rd 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,351 | Pinetops NC | 1,198 | $60K | 13.1% | 2.7% | 5% | C |
| 3,352 | West Pelzer SC | 1,038 | $54K | 17.8% | 9.8% | 1% | C |
| 3,353 | Enfield ME | 1,444 | $63K | 6.8% | 0.0% | 9% | C |
| 3,354 | Ephratah NY | 1,645 | $81K | 11.5% | 2.1% | 2% | C |
| 3,355 | Pike Township OH | 1,723 | $69K | 9.9% | 0.0% | 1% | 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 Enfield, the top three, the last and three more from Maine.
Next door to Enfield
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Enfield workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enfield | – | C | C+ | 27 min | $62,667 |
| Lowell | under 2% | — | — | 31 min | — |
| Passadumkeag | under 2% | — | — | 40 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Lowell and Passadumkeag: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Enfield’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 Enfield: questions
What is the median household income in Enfield?
$62,667 (±$6,678) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,733 across Maine and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Enfield?
6.8%, against 10.7% across Maine and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Enfield?
27 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Maine and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Enfield work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lincoln (18%, 8 mi), Bangor (15%, 33 mi), Howland (5%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Enfield walkable?
Enfield is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 6.2 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Enfield without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Enfield, from the people who make the trip.
More of Enfield
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.