Free Will Baptist Church (Former) · Photo: Magicpiano · CC BY-SA 3.0Fewer people are out of work in Milo (0.6%) than in 97% of U.S. towns
3% of workers have no commute at all, against 16% across Maine. Milo grades C for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Household incomes here are lower than in 79% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Milo at work: what stands out
Milo workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 42 minutes each way, against 25 across Maine. Over a year that’s about 322 hours of commuting, 130 more than the state’s typical worker. Every town next door averages less (26 to 37 minutes). Time on the road ↓
Milo’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Milo is Bangor, 32 miles away as the crow flies. 16% of working residents (130) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Milo makes and builds things
44% of the jobs based in Milo are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Milo residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 22%. 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; with 831 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The four measures behind Milo’s grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Milo is better than 29% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Milo’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Milo could be anywhere from C− to C+.
About 42 minutes to work from Milo
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Milo workers work from home, vs 16% across Maine. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,048 commuters (the 3% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Milo
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.
Goods jobs make up 44% of work in Milo
635 jobs are based in Milo.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Milo, 2013 → 2023: 484 → 635. 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 Milo’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily commute in and out of Milo
On a workday 689 residents head out to work, 142 work right here, and 493 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.76 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
16% of working residents work in Bangor
Where Milo clocks in
16% of workers
12% of workers
4% 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.
Few in Milo walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Milo is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.0% across Maine, on an EPA index of 5.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,083 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). 5.9% of Milo households have no vehicle (Maine 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Milo’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,200, Milo ranks 3,632nd of 5,552 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 309 | Dayton ME | 2,182 | $114K | 3.7% | 0.2% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 635 | Ogunquit ME | 1,606 | $114K | 3.2% | 0.0% | 22% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 697 | Pownal ME | 1,645 | $104K | 5.5% | 0.7% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,630 | Homestead PA | 2,822 | $39K | 18.6% | 5.5% | 6% | C |
| 3,631 | Prophetstown Township IL | 2,425 | $69K | 10.4% | 5.7% | 15% | C |
| 3,632 | Milo ME | 2,350 | $57K | 16.4% | 0.6% | 17% | C |
| 3,633 | East Wheatfield Township PA | 2,113 | $51K | 16.5% | 2.9% | 7% | C |
| 3,634 | Penn Valley CA | 1,678 | $65K | 9.3% | 0.0% | 4% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,552 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Milo, the top three, the last and three more from Maine.
Around Milo: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Sebec (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Milo workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milo | – | C | C+ | 42 min | $56,875 |
| Brownville | under 2% | D | C− | 37 min | $64,063 |
| Sebec | 4% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Medford | under 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Sebec and Medford: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Milo’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 Milo: questions
What is the median household income in Milo?
$56,875 (±$9,224) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,733 across Maine and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Milo?
16.4%, against 10.7% across Maine and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Milo?
42 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Maine and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Milo work?
17% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bangor (16%, 32 mi), Dover-Foxcroft (12%, 12 mi), Guilford (4%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Milo walkable?
Milo is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.1 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Milo without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Milo, from the people who make the trip.
More of Milo
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.