William M. Shaw House · Photo: AntiCompositeNumber · CC BY-SA 4.0Greenville has 1.3 jobs for every working resident: 382 people commute in to work
Jobs & income D: better than 12% of U.S. towns on income, poverty and job access.
Walkability B: more walkable than 60% of U.S. towns.
Household incomes here are lower than in 68% of U.S. towns. Working residents average 17 minutes each way (Maine 25, U.S. 26). About half work in Greenville; the top destination outside it is Bangor (3%, 57 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Greenville
A big share show a job far from home
33% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Commutes from Greenville are quick
The average trip to work takes 17 minutes, against 25 across Maine. That’s about 61 hours a year less on the road than the typical Maine worker. Time on the road ↓
Greenville’s workforce skews older
37% of Greenville’s working residents are 55 or older. 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 459 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Greenville’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Greenville is better than 12% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Greenville’s grade up (13.7%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.3%) is left out: Greenville’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, Greenville could be anywhere from D− to C.
Half of Greenville commutes less than 5 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 33% 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.
About 17 minutes each way, quicker than most of Maine
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Greenville workers work from home, vs 16% across Maine. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 624 commuters (the 8% who work from home are left out). Across Maine: 84% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
What the 604 jobs in Greenville are
604 jobs are based in Greenville. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Greenville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Greenville, 2013 → 2023: 562 → 604. 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.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 237 residents head out to work, 222 work right here, and 382 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 (1.32 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 Greenville goes to work
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Greenville clocks in
3% of workers
3% of workers
3% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Most trips from Greenville start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Greenville is more walkable than 60% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Greenville 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 675 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). 3.0% of Greenville households have no vehicle (Maine 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Greenville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Greenville is 4,949th of 6,085 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Greenville, the top three, the last and three more from Maine.
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 277 | Dayton ME | 2,182 | $114K | 3.7% | 0.2% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 579 | Ogunquit ME | 1,606 | $114K | 3.2% | 0.0% | 22% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 631 | Pownal ME | 1,645 | $104K | 5.5% | 0.7% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,947 | Buchanan VA | 1,212 | $54K | 17.9% | 6.6% | 2% | D |
| 4,948 | Patoka Township IN | 1,599 | $60K | 13.5% | 0.0% | 3% | D |
| 4,949 | Greenville ME | 1,743 | $63K | 13.7% | 0.3% | 48% | D |
| 4,950 | Ferry Township MI | 1,305 | $55K | 11.9% | 4.2% | 1% | D |
| 4,951 | Porter Township PA | 1,253 | $70K | 20.2% | 3.2% | 1% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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.
Greenville and the towns next door
Darker towns draw more of Greenville’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Greenville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greenville | – | D | B | 17 min | $63,486 |
| Beaver Cove | under 1% | — | — | 15 min | — |
| Shirley | under 1% | — | — | 21 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Beaver Cove and Shirley: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
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 Greenville: questions
What is the median household income in Greenville?
$63,486 (±$8,997) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,733 across Maine and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Greenville?
13.7%, against 10.7% across Maine and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Greenville?
17 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Maine and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Greenville work?
48% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bangor (3%, 57 mi), Portland (3%, 130 mi), Guilford (3%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Greenville walkable?
Greenville is more walkable than 60% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.5 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Greenville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Greenville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Greenville
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.