Moses Hutchins House · Photo: Magicpiano · CC BY-SA 3.0Lovell has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
Jobs and income earn Lovell C; getting around on foot earns it C+. 201 jobs are based in Lovell, against 407 working residents. Only 5% work in Lovell; the top destination outside it is Bridgton (9%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Lovell and work: the main findings
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Lovell
On income, poverty and job access, Lovell is better than 29% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Lovell’s grade up ($80,625, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (3.1%) is left out: Lovell’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Lovell could be anywhere from D to B.
How long Lovell spends getting to work: about 31 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lovell workers work from home, vs 16% across Maine. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 512 commuters (the 22% 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.
Who commutes out of Lovell, and who commutes in
On a workday 388 residents head out to work, 19 work right here, and 182 people come in from elsewhere.
About 950 people are in Lovell on a workday afternoon, 18% 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.
Where Lovell goes to work
Where Lovell clocks in
9% of workers
7% of workers
6% 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.
Jobs in Lovell: what the 201 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lovell, 2013 → 2023: 123 → 201. 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 Lovell’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Lovell
About 16% 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.
In Lovell, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lovell is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.0% across Maine, on an EPA index of 4.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 655 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). 1.0% of Lovell households have no vehicle (Maine 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lovell’s commuters take a bus or train.
Lovell places 2,438th of 4,312 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 689 | Edgecomb ME | 1,214 | $109K | 5.6% | 3.1% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,052 | Georgetown ME | 1,101 | $84K | 6.3% | 3.5% | 4% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,115 | South Thomaston ME | 1,520 | $87K | 4.2% | 0.0% | 4% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 2,436 | Le Roy Township MI | 1,291 | $68K | 7.9% | 14.8% | 10% | C |
| 2,437 | Muldraugh KY | 1,009 | $61K | 22.5% | 5.7% | 5% | C |
| 2,438 | Lovell ME | 1,155 | $81K | 10.0% | 3.1% | 5% | C |
| 2,439 | Moffatt Township MI | 1,170 | $70K | 7.9% | 12.1% | 1% | C |
| 2,440 | Rodman NY | 1,151 | $83K | 13.6% | 7.1% | 1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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 Lovell, the top three, the last and three more from Maine.
Next door to Lovell
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Lovell workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lovell | – | C | C+ | 31 min | $80,625 |
| Stow | under 3% | — | — | 51 min | — |
| Sweden | under 3% | — | — | 31 min | — |
| Stoneham | under 3% | — | — | 29 min | — |
| Waterford | under 3% | D | C− | 34 min | $66,071 |
Same-state neighbors only. Stow, Sweden and Stoneham: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Lovell’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 Lovell: questions
What is the median household income in Lovell?
$80,625 (±$20,154) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,733 across Maine and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lovell?
10.0%, against 10.7% across Maine and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lovell?
31 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Maine and 26 nationally. 22% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lovell work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bridgton (9%, 12 mi), Fryeburg (7%, 11 mi), Portland (6%, 52 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lovell walkable?
Lovell is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.8 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lovell without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lovell, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lovell
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.