Photo: Captain-tucker · CC BY-SA 3.0Ogunquit draws 821 commuters a day, with 2.3 jobs for every working resident
Household incomes here are higher than in 86% of U.S. towns. 905 jobs are based in Ogunquit; 386 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Ogunquit is better than 83% of U.S. towns (A−); for walkability it is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns (C−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Ogunquit and work: the main findings
Ogunquit is where the jobs are
Ogunquit has 905 jobs, 2.3 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
A lot of Ogunquit works from home
43% of Ogunquit workers work from home, against 16% across Maine. Time on the road ↓
Ogunquit’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Ogunquit is Portland, 34 miles away as the crow flies. 9% of working residents (35) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
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 386 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Ogunquit’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
The poverty rate holds Ogunquit’s grade up (3.2%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 41% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Ogunquit’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, Ogunquit could be anywhere from B− to A.
Who leaves Ogunquit for work, and who comes in
On a workday 302 residents head out to work and 84 work right here.
About 2,100 people are in Ogunquit on a workday afternoon, 32% more 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.
Commuting from Ogunquit: about 26 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ogunquit workers work from home, vs 16% across Maine. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 345 commuters (the 43% 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 Ogunquit’s workers travel
About 22% 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 daily trip into Ogunquit
Where Ogunquit clocks in
9% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Ogunquit
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ogunquit, 2013 → 2023: 863 → 905. 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 Ogunquit’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute in Ogunquit is mostly behind the wheel
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 5.0% across Maine.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 608 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). 4.1% of Ogunquit households have no vehicle (Maine 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Ogunquit’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Ogunquit is 556th of 6,161 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 275 | Dayton ME | 2,182 | $114K | 3.7% | 0.2% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 554 | Bogus Brook Township MN | 1,535 | $124K | 2.3% | 1.8% | <1% | A− |
| 555 | Bennet NE | 1,104 | $106K | 5.1% | 1.3% | <1% | A− |
| 556 | Ogunquit ME | 1,606 | $114K | 3.2% | 0.0% | 22% | A− |
| 557 | Freedom Township MI | 1,298 | $113K | 6.7% | 2.5% | 1% | A− |
| 558 | Lincoln WI | 2,144 | $96K | 2.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 603 | Pownal ME | 1,645 | $104K | 5.5% | 0.7% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 658 | Newcastle ME | 1,915 | $90K | 3.5% | 0.0% | 10% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Ogunquit, the top three, the last and three more from Maine.
The towns next door employ 13% of Ogunquit
The biggest share goes to York (8%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Ogunquit’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 Ogunquit: questions
What is the median household income in Ogunquit?
$114,259 (±$56,066) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,733 across Maine and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ogunquit?
3.2%, against 10.7% across Maine and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ogunquit?
26 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Maine and 26 nationally. 43% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ogunquit work?
22% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Portland (9%, 34 mi), York (8%, 5 mi), Wells (5%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Ogunquit walkable?
Ogunquit is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ogunquit without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ogunquit, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ogunquit
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.