Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Milford works elsewhere
Employers in Milford report 345 jobs; 1,276 of its residents have a job. Milford grades B for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Only 4% work in Milford itself; outside it, Bangor draws the most (33%, 15 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Milford
One in three of Milford works in Bangor
427 working residents, 33%, have their main job in Bangor, 15 miles away. That’s 8 times as many as work in Milford itself. The commute map ↓
Milford is a place people come home to
There are 345 jobs based in Milford, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Milford has about 2,200 people in it, 30% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Milford makes and builds things
37% of the jobs based in Milford are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Milford residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 14%. The jobs ↓
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.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Milford
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Milford is better than 58% of U.S. towns, #67 of 143 in Maine. The poverty rate holds Milford’s grade up (5.3%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 26% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Milford could be anywhere from C− to A.
The places Milford commutes to
Where Milford clocks in
33% of workers
11% of workers
9% 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.
Who commutes out of Milford, and who commutes in
On a workday 1,219 residents head out to work, 57 work right here, and 288 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,200 people are in Milford on a workday afternoon, 30% 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.
Goods, not services: 37% of the jobs in Milford
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Milford, 2013 → 2023: 373 → 345. 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 Milford’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Milford: about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Milford workers work from home, vs 16% across Maine. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,365 commuters (the 12% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Milford
About 21% 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.
Most of Milford commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Milford is more walkable than 15% of U.S. towns, #122 of 143 in Maine. Both inputs place Milford near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,549 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). 12.5% of Milford households have no vehicle (Maine 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Milford’s commuters take a bus or train.
Milford places 1,804th of 4,562 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 2,200 to 4,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 760 | Limington ME | 4,173 | $85K | 3.4% | 0.4% | 5% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 914 | Orrington ME | 3,912 | $95K | 6.6% | 1.7% | 4% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 987 | Kennebunkport ME | 3,717 | $103K | 4.6% | 3.7% | 14% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,802 | Warwick Township OH | 2,732 | $79K | 14.5% | 1.6% | 2% | B |
| 1,803 | Pine Canyon CA | 2,477 | $111K | 6.3% | 5.2% | <1% | B |
| 1,804 | Milford ME | 3,117 | $85K | 5.3% | 4.0% | 4% | B |
| 1,805 | Park Township MI | 2,374 | $79K | 5.3% | 4.8% | 4% | B |
| 1,806 | Inverness Highlands North FL | 2,830 | $63K | 7.5% | 0.8% | 1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,562 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Milford, the top three, the last and three more from Maine.
The towns next door employ 13% of Milford
The biggest share goes to Old Town (11%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Milford’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 Milford: questions
What is the median household income in Milford?
$85,111 (±$25,874) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,733 across Maine and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Milford?
5.3%, against 10.7% across Maine and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Milford?
23 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Maine and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Milford work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bangor (33%, 15 mi), Old Town (11%, 8 mi), Orono (9%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Milford walkable?
Milford is more walkable than 15% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Milford without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Milford, from the people who make the trip.
More of Milford
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.