Photo: Magicpiano · CC BY-SA 4.0Sangerville has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Household incomes here are lower than in 87% of U.S. towns. Employers in Sangerville report 122 jobs, and 470 of its residents work somewhere. For jobs and income Sangerville is better than 7% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns (C+).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Sangerville, in brief
A lot of Sangerville works one town over
42% of working residents work in a town that borders Sangerville: Guilford (26%), Dover-Foxcroft (12%) and Dexter (4%). Next door ↓
Sangerville is a place people come home to
There are 122 jobs based in Sangerville, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Sangerville has about 990 people in it, 26% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Sangerville are quick
The average trip to work takes 20 minutes, against 25 across Maine. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Maine worker. Time on the road ↓
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 470 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Sangerville’s Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Sangerville’s grade up (13.5%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 2% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (6.9%) is left out: Sangerville’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, Sangerville could be anywhere from D− to C.
Sangerville by day and by night
On a workday 457 residents head out to work, 13 work right here, and 109 people come in from elsewhere.
About 990 people are in Sangerville on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
About 20 minutes to work from Sangerville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sangerville workers work from home, vs 16% across Maine. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 436 commuters (the 14% 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.
26% of working residents work in Guilford
Where Sangerville clocks in
26% of workers
12% of workers
7% 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.
A place that makes things: 37% of Sangerville’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sangerville, 2013 → 2023: 267 → 122. 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 Sangerville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Sangerville
About 23% 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 trips from Sangerville start in a car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.0% across Maine, on an EPA index of 4.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 505 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). 2.8% of Sangerville households have no vehicle (Maine 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Sangerville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Sangerville is 4,723rd among 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 428 | Ogunquit ME | 1,606 | $114K | 3.2% | 0.0% | 22% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 460 | Pownal ME | 1,645 | $104K | 5.5% | 0.7% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 894 | Edgecomb ME | 1,214 | $109K | 5.6% | 3.1% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,721 | Plummer ID | 1,130 | $54K | 15.0% | 5.4% | 15% | D |
| 4,722 | Capitan NM | 1,402 | $53K | 14.4% | 6.5% | 10% | D |
| 4,723 | Sangerville ME | 1,336 | $50K | 13.5% | 6.9% | 3% | D |
| 4,724 | Gladwin Township MI | 1,151 | $59K | 18.7% | 5.9% | 1% | D |
| 4,725 | Wilhoit AZ | 1,101 | $58K | 15.9% | 7.5% | 1% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Sangerville, the top three, the last and three more from Maine.
42% of Sangerville works in a town next door
The biggest share goes to Guilford (26%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Sangerville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sangerville | – | D | C+ | 20 min | $50,313 |
| Guilford | 26% | D | C+ | 19 min | $53,173 |
| Dover-Foxcroft | 12% | C | B | 15 min | $63,344 |
| Parkman | under 3% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Dexter | 4% | C− | B− | 23 min | $51,845 |
Same-state neighbors only. Parkman: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Sangerville’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 Sangerville: questions
What is the median household income in Sangerville?
$50,313 (±$14,009) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,733 across Maine and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sangerville?
13.5%, against 10.7% across Maine and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sangerville?
20 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Maine and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sangerville work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Guilford (26%, 6 mi), Dover-Foxcroft (12%, 6 mi), Bangor (7%, 32 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Sangerville walkable?
Sangerville is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.1 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sangerville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sangerville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sangerville
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.