Work, pay and getting to work in Frye Island
The trip to work takes 24 minutes on average, where Maine has 25 and the U.S. 26. Home is the office for 0% of workers; Maine has 16%. Hardly any work in Frye Island; the top destination outside it is South Portland (23%, 18 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in Frye Island by day
On a workday 13 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 12 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 (0.92 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.
Where Frye Island goes to work
Where Frye Island clocks in
23% of workers
15% of workers
15% 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.
Frye Island is a services town
12 jobs are based in Frye Island.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Frye Island, 2013 → 2023: 9 → 12. 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 Frye Island’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 24 minutes to work from Frye Island
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Frye Island workers work from home, vs 16% across Maine. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 26 commuters (the 0% 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 Frye Island
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.
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 Frye Island: questions
What is the median household income in Frye Island?
$61,719 (±$33,999) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,733 across Maine and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Frye Island?
5.9%, against 10.7% across Maine and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Frye Island?
24 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Maine and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Frye Island work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are South Portland (23%, 18 mi), Westbrook (15%, 12 mi), Portland (15%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Frye Island without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Frye Island, from the people who make the trip.
More of Frye Island
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.