Photo: Cara Fealy Choate (w:Flickr user carabou) · CC BY 2.0Jonesport has lower household incomes than 62% of U.S. towns
8% of workers have no commute at all (Maine 16%). 13.5% of residents live below the poverty line; Maine has 10.7%. The two grades for Jonesport are D for jobs and income and A− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Jonesport apart
A big share show a job far from home
32% 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 Jonesport are quick
The average trip to work takes 18 minutes, against 25 across Maine. That’s about 54 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 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 367 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Jonesport
On income, poverty and job access, Jonesport is better than 14% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Jonesport’s grade up ($67,500, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (5.4%) is left out: Jonesport’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, Jonesport could be anywhere from D to C.
How far Jonesport’s workers travel
About 32% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Commuting from Jonesport: about 18 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Jonesport workers work from home, vs 16% across Maine. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 450 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.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
How many people are in Jonesport by day
On a workday 317 residents head out to work, 50 work right here, and 192 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Jonesport on a workday afternoon, 10% fewer than live here.
0.66 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 2024, primary jobs.
16% of working residents work in Machias
Where Jonesport clocks in
16% 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.
Inside Jonesport’s 242 jobs
242 jobs are based in Jonesport.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Jonesport, 2014 → 2024: 224 → 242. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Jonesport’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Jonesport
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Jonesport is more walkable than 79% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 8.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.0% across Maine, on an EPA index of 7.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 489 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). 4.0% of Jonesport households have no vehicle (Maine 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Jonesport’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Jonesport is 3,701st among 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 378 | Ogunquit ME | 1,606 | $114K | 3.2% | 0.0% | 24% | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,699 | New York Mills MN | 1,481 | $57K | 15.8% | 3.1% | 19% | D |
| 3,700 | Gerald MO | 1,350 | $61K | 14.5% | 6.1% | 4% | D |
| 3,701 | Jonesport ME | 1,244 | $68K | 13.5% | 5.4% | 14% | D |
| 3,702 | Sunsbury Township OH | 1,240 | $63K | 12.4% | 1.8% | 6% | D |
| 3,703 | Palestine IL | 1,210 | $63K | 15.0% | 3.2% | 2% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Jonesport, the top three, the last and three more from Maine.
Next door is work for 16% of Jonesport
The biggest share goes to Jonesboro (7%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Jonesport workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jonesport | – | D | A− | 18 min | $67,500 |
| Addison | under 3% | D− | C− | 27 min | $50,524 |
| Jonesboro | 7% | — | — | 19 min | — |
| Machiasport | 2% | D | B | 21 min | $60,000 |
| Beals | 7% | — | — | 21 min | — |
| Roque Bluffs | under 3% | — | — | 17 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Jonesboro, Beals and Roque Bluffs: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Jonesport’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 2024, 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 Jonesport: questions
What is the median household income in Jonesport?
$67,500 (±$12,657) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,733 across Maine and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Jonesport?
13.5%, against 10.7% across Maine and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Jonesport?
18 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Maine and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Jonesport work?
14% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Machias (16%, 10 mi), Jonesboro (7%, 9 mi), Beals (7%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Jonesport walkable?
Jonesport is more walkable than 79% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Jonesport 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 Jonesport, from the people who make the trip.
More of Jonesport
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.