Most of Meddybemps commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
8 jobs are based in Meddybemps, and 46 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Meddybemps itself; outside it, Machias draws the most (17%, 25 miles). For 5% of workers, the job is at home, next to 16% for Maine as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Meddybemps by day and by night
On a workday 46 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 8 people come in from elsewhere.
About 98 people are in Meddybemps on a workday afternoon, 28% 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.
The towns that employ Meddybemps’ residents
Where Meddybemps clocks in
17% of workers
15% of workers
13% 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.
What Meddybemps’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Meddybemps, 2013 → 2023: 3 → 8. 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 Meddybemps’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Meddybemps: 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 Meddybemps workers work from home, vs 16% across Maine. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 35 commuters (the 5% 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 far it is to work from Meddybemps
About 24% 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.
Next door to Meddybemps
The biggest share goes to Charlotte (7%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Meddybemps workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meddybemps | – | — | — | 31 min | $48,000 |
| Cooper | under 3% | — | — | 44 min | — |
| Baring plantation | under 3% | — | — | 13 min | — |
| Charlotte | 7% | — | — | 24 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Cooper, Baring plantation and Charlotte: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Meddybemps’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 Meddybemps: questions
What is the median household income in Meddybemps?
$48,000 (±$12,660) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,733 across Maine and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Meddybemps?
7.2%, against 10.7% across Maine and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Meddybemps?
31 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Maine and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Meddybemps work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Machias (17%, 25 mi), East Machias (15%, 19 mi), Calais (13%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Meddybemps without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Meddybemps, from the people who make the trip.
More of Meddybemps
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.