Stetson Union Church · Photo: Hikeramc · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Stetson works elsewhere
The two grades for Stetson are C for jobs and income and D− for walkability. Stetson has 91 jobs, against 571 working residents. Only 3% work in Stetson; the top destination outside it is Bangor (28%, 17 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Stetson apart
Stetson is a place people come home to
There are 91 jobs based in Stetson, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Stetson has about 760 people in it, 39% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
28% of Stetson works in Bangor
158 working residents, 28%, have their main job in Bangor, 17 miles away. That’s 9 times as many as work in Stetson itself. The commute map ↓
Stetson workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 32 minutes each way, against 25 across Maine. Over a year that’s about 245 hours of commuting, 54 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 571 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Stetson earns its Jobs & income grade
Household income holds Stetson’s grade up ($76,023, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 7% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (3.8%) is left out: Stetson’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Stetson could be anywhere from D to B.
The workday shuffle in and out of Stetson
On a workday 554 residents head out to work, 17 work right here, and 74 people come in from elsewhere.
About 760 people are in Stetson on a workday afternoon, 39% 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.
Commuting out of Stetson: the destinations
Where Stetson clocks in
28% 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.
About 32 minutes each way for Stetson’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Stetson workers work from home, vs 16% across Maine. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 479 commuters (the 11% 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.
What Stetson’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Stetson, 2013 → 2023: 64 → 91. 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 Stetson’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Stetson
About 18% 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.
In Stetson, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Stetson is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Stetson 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 538 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). 5.8% of Stetson households have no vehicle (Maine 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Stetson’s commuters take a bus or train.
Stetson is 2,850th of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 378 | Ogunquit ME | 1,606 | $114K | 3.2% | 0.0% | 22% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 406 | Pownal ME | 1,645 | $104K | 5.5% | 0.7% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 782 | Edgecomb ME | 1,214 | $109K | 5.6% | 3.1% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,848 | Henderson LA | 1,594 | $49K | 12.9% | 1.1% | 15% | C |
| 2,849 | Camp Point Township IL | 1,612 | $66K | 9.9% | 1.5% | 12% | C |
| 2,850 | Stetson ME | 1,243 | $76K | 10.4% | 3.8% | 3% | C |
| 2,851 | Ledyard NY | 1,350 | $87K | 14.9% | 5.6% | 20% | C |
| 2,852 | Harrison Township OH | 1,192 | $52K | 6.8% | 4.7% | 0% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Stetson, the top three, the last and three more from Maine.
Stetson and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Newport (5%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Stetson’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 Stetson: questions
What is the median household income in Stetson?
$76,023 (±$28,009) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,733 across Maine and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Stetson?
10.4%, against 10.7% across Maine and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Stetson?
32 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Maine and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Stetson work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bangor (28%, 17 mi), Etna (6%, 8 mi), Hermon (5%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Stetson walkable?
Stetson is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.8 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Stetson 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 Stetson, from the people who make the trip.
More of Stetson
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.