Photo: Nyttend · Public domainMost of Morrill commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
88 jobs are based in Morrill; 381 of its residents have a job. Morrill grades C+ for jobs and income and C for walkability. Home is the office for 6% of workers (Maine 16%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Morrill stands out on work
How Morrill earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Morrill is better than 41% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Morrill’s grade up (6.3%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 11% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (3.7%) is left out: Morrill’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Morrill could be anywhere from C− to B.
A workday in Morrill: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 374 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 81 people come in from elsewhere.
About 740 people are in Morrill 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.
27% of working residents work in Belfast
Where Morrill clocks in
27% of workers
5% of workers
5% 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.
The kinds of work in Morrill
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Morrill, 2013 → 2023: 57 → 88. 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 Morrill’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Morrill: about 29 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Morrill workers work from home, vs 16% across Maine. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 414 commuters (the 6% 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 Morrill works
About 17% 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.
The commute in Morrill is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Morrill is more walkable than 29% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Morrill 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 440 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). 1.9% of Morrill households have no vehicle (Maine 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Morrill’s commuters take a bus or train.
Morrill is 1,322nd of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 467 | Edgecomb ME | 1,214 | $109K | 5.6% | 3.1% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 730 | Georgetown ME | 1,101 | $84K | 6.3% | 3.5% | 4% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 818 | Wayne ME | 1,167 | $93K | 7.9% | 1.3% | 4% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,320 | Greenville VA | 1,183 | $42K | 2.2% | 0.0% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,321 | Denison Township IL | 1,246 | $71K | 4.8% | 11.0% | 2% | C+ |
| 1,322 | Morrill ME | 1,031 | $74K | 6.3% | 3.7% | 2% | C+ |
| 1,323 | Madison Township OH | 1,386 | $71K | 9.7% | 0.0% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,324 | Aurora WI | 1,020 | $79K | 5.8% | 5.3% | 5% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 Morrill, the top three, the last and three more from Maine.
Around Morrill: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Searsmont (5%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Morrill workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morrill | – | C+ | C | 29 min | $74,250 |
| Belmont | under 2% | C+ | C− | 24 min | $61,250 |
| Searsmont | 5% | B− | B− | 25 min | $87,000 |
| Waldo | under 2% | — | — | 20 min | — |
| Knox | under 2% | — | — | 30 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Waldo and Knox: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Morrill’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 Morrill: questions
What is the median household income in Morrill?
$74,250 (±$17,684) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,733 across Maine and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Morrill?
6.3%, against 10.7% across Maine and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Morrill?
29 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Maine and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Morrill work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Belfast (27%, 7 mi), Augusta (5%, 29 mi), Searsmont (5%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Morrill walkable?
Morrill is more walkable than 29% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.5 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Morrill without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Morrill, from the people who make the trip.
More of Morrill
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.