Making a living in Masardis
The trip to work takes 36 minutes on average, where Maine has 25 and the U.S. 26. 0% of workers work from home, against 16% across Maine. Masardis has 117 jobs; 68 of its residents have a job.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Masardis by day and by night
On a workday 65 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 114 people come in from elsewhere.
About 250 people are in Masardis on a workday afternoon, 24% more than live here.
1.7 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
The towns that send workers to Masardis
Where Masardis 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.
Masardis makes things: 99% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Masardis, 2013 → 2023: 146 → 117. 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 Masardis’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Masardis, about 36 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Masardis workers work from home, vs 16% across Maine. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 171 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.
Where in the region Masardis works
About 31% 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.
Bordering towns draw 22% of Masardis’ workers
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Ashland. Darker towns draw more of Masardis’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 Masardis: questions
What is the median household income in Masardis?
$67,650 (±$26,495) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,733 across Maine and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Masardis?
11.2%, against 10.7% across Maine and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Masardis?
36 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Maine and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Masardis work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ashland (22%, 9 mi), Presque Isle (16%, 22 mi), Portage Lake (9%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Masardis 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 Masardis, from the people who make the trip.
More of Masardis
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.