Photo: wbaron · CC BY-SA 3.0Hodgdon has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Jobs & income D: better than 10% of U.S. towns on income, poverty and job access.
Walkability C: more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns.
Household incomes here are lower than in 82% of U.S. towns. Working residents average 15 minutes each way (Maine 25, U.S. 26). Only 4% work in Hodgdon; the top destination outside it is Houlton (32%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Hodgdon, in brief
A lot of Hodgdon works one town over
36% of working residents work in a town that borders Hodgdon: Houlton (32%) and Linneus (4%). Next door ↓
Hodgdon is a place people come home to
There are 75 jobs based in Hodgdon, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Hodgdon has about 920 people in it, 29% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Hodgdon 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. Time on the road ↓
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 447 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Hodgdon’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Hodgdon is better than 10% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Hodgdon’s grade up (12.1%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 4% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (1.5%) is left out: Hodgdon’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, Hodgdon could be anywhere from D− to C.
Hodgdon quiets down on a workday
On a workday 427 residents head out to work, 20 work right here, and 55 people come in from elsewhere.
About 920 people are in Hodgdon on a workday afternoon, 29% fewer than live here.
0.17 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
About 15 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 4.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hodgdon workers work from home, vs 16% across Maine. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 596 commuters (the 7% who work from home are left out). Across Maine: 84% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
32% of working residents work in Houlton
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Hodgdon clocks in
32% of workers
6% of workers
5% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
What the 75 jobs in Hodgdon are
75 jobs are based in Hodgdon. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Hodgdon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hodgdon, 2013 → 2023: 96 → 75. 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.
Half of Hodgdon commutes less than 27 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.
Most trips from Hodgdon start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hodgdon is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.0% across Maine, on an EPA index of 3.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 640 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). 9.3% of Hodgdon households have no vehicle (Maine 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hodgdon’s commuters take a bus or train.
Hodgdon is 3,974th of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Hodgdon, the top three, the last and three more from Maine.
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 378 | Ogunquit ME | 1,606 | $114K | 3.2% | 0.0% | 22% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 406 | Pownal ME | 1,645 | $104K | 5.5% | 0.7% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 782 | Edgecomb ME | 1,214 | $109K | 5.6% | 3.1% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,972 | Crescent OK | 1,429 | $63K | 19.3% | 4.8% | 6% | D |
| 3,973 | Lexington TX | 1,342 | $56K | 15.6% | 10.9% | 3% | D |
| 3,974 | Hodgdon ME | 1,296 | $55K | 12.1% | 1.5% | 4% | D |
| 3,975 | Pittsfield NY | 1,304 | $67K | 23.0% | 7.0% | 3% | D |
| 3,976 | Marion Township OH | 1,185 | $62K | 15.8% | 7.0% | 2% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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.
36% of Hodgdon works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Houlton (32%). Darker towns draw more of Hodgdon’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Average commute minutes, one way
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 Hodgdon: questions
What is the median household income in Hodgdon?
$54,519 (±$10,516) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,733 across Maine and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hodgdon?
12.1%, against 10.7% across Maine and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hodgdon?
15 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Maine and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hodgdon work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Houlton (32%, 6 mi), Presque Isle (6%, 45 mi), Bangor (5%, 96 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hodgdon walkable?
Hodgdon is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 3.5 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hodgdon without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hodgdon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hodgdon
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.