Photo: Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0St. Albans has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
St. Albans grades D for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. 109 jobs are based in St. Albans for 811 working residents. Only 2% work in St. Albans; the top destination outside it is Bangor (9%, 30 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in St. Albans: the figures worth knowing
St. Albans is a place people come home to
There are 109 jobs based in St. Albans, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday St. Albans has about 1,500 people in it, 32% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
St. Albans’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside St. Albans is Bangor, 30 miles away as the crow flies. 9% of working residents (74) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
St. Albans workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 33 minutes each way, against 25 across Maine. Over a year that’s about 253 hours of commuting, 61 more than the state’s typical 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 811 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
St. Albans’ Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, St. Albans is better than 8% of U.S. towns. Household income holds St. Albans’ grade up ($65,600, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down.
Unemployment (2.0%) is left out: St. Albans’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, St. Albans could be anywhere from D− to C.
St. Albans quiets down on a workday
On a workday 791 residents head out to work, 20 work right here, and 89 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in St. Albans on a workday afternoon, 32% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from St. Albans
About 25% 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 from St. Albans: about 33 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of St. Albans workers work from home, vs 16% across Maine. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 556 commuters (the 10% 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 St. Albans goes to work
Where St. Albans clocks in
9% of workers
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.
St. Albans makes things: 57% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in St. Albans, 2013 → 2023: 167 → 109. 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 St. Albans’s own residents hold wherever they work.
St. Albans is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, St. Albans is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.0% across Maine, on an EPA index of 4.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 620 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). 8.9% of St. Albans households have no vehicle (Maine 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of St. Albans’ commuters take a bus or train.
4,727th of 5,404: where St. Albans ranks among U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,900
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 285 | Dayton ME | 2,182 | $114K | 3.7% | 0.2% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 587 | Ogunquit ME | 1,606 | $114K | 3.2% | 0.0% | 22% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 639 | Pownal ME | 1,645 | $104K | 5.5% | 0.7% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,725 | Arcade NY | 1,911 | $59K | 17.7% | 7.3% | 13% | D |
| 4,726 | Ritzville WA | 1,709 | $56K | 14.0% | 2.8% | 32% | D |
| 4,727 | St. Albans ME | 2,176 | $66K | 23.2% | 2.0% | 2% | D |
| 4,728 | Wayne Township MI | 2,463 | $61K | 21.2% | 13.2% | 5% | D |
| 4,729 | Moira NY | 2,871 | $64K | 20.1% | 6.9% | 8% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,404 | 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 St. Albans, the top three, the last and three more from Maine.
St. Albans and the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | St. Albans workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Albans | – | D | C+ | 33 min | $65,600 |
| Hartland | under 3% | D | C− | 30 min | $46,141 |
| Corinna | under 3% | D | D | 32 min | $56,547 |
| Palmyra | under 3% | C | C+ | 21 min | $60,543 |
| Ripley | under 3% | — | — | 32 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Ripley: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of St. Albans’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 St. Albans: questions
What is the median household income in St. Albans?
$65,600 (±$23,142) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,733 across Maine and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in St. Albans?
23.2%, against 10.7% across Maine and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from St. Albans?
33 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Maine and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in St. Albans work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bangor (9%, 30 mi), Newport (9%, 9 mi), Pittsfield (5%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is St. Albans walkable?
St. Albans is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.6 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around St. Albans without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from St. Albans, from the people who make the trip.
More of St. Albans
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.