Bass Harbor Memorial Library · Photo: Suekoehler · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Tremont have higher incomes than those in 66% of U.S. towns
The two grades for Tremont are B− for jobs and income and B− for walkability. 6.6% of residents live below the poverty line, next to 10.7% for Maine as a whole. About one in five work in Tremont; the top destination outside it is Southwest Harbor (17%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Tremont
On income, poverty and job access, Tremont is better than 46% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Tremont’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 4% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (2.3%) is left out: Tremont’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, Tremont could be anywhere from C to B.
A workday in Tremont: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 372 residents head out to work, 85 work right here, and 178 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Tremont on a workday afternoon, 13% fewer than live here.
0.58 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where people from Tremont work
Where Tremont clocks in
14% of workers
6% 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.
What Tremont’s employers do
263 jobs are based in Tremont.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tremont, 2013 → 2023: 183 → 263. 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 Tremont’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 24 minutes in Tremont
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tremont workers work from home, vs 16% across Maine. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 608 commuters (the 21% 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.
The commute from Tremont, by distance
About 20% 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.
Tremont is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Tremont is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.0% across Maine, on an EPA index of 6.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 769 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). 1.7% of Tremont households have no vehicle (Maine 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Tremont’s commuters take a bus or train.
2,369th of 5,794: where Tremont ranks among U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 516 | Ogunquit ME | 1,606 | $114K | 3.2% | 0.0% | 22% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 558 | Pownal ME | 1,645 | $104K | 5.5% | 0.7% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 607 | Newcastle ME | 1,915 | $90K | 3.5% | 0.0% | 10% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,367 | Freedom PA | 1,442 | $74K | 20.4% | 2.3% | 3% | B− |
| 2,368 | Dresden ME | 1,792 | $75K | 9.3% | 1.2% | 2% | B− |
| 2,369 | Tremont ME | 1,552 | $89K | 6.6% | 2.3% | 19% | B− |
| 2,370 | Bay AR | 1,803 | $60K | 14.8% | 2.1% | 2% | B− |
| 2,371 | East McKeesport PA | 1,969 | $66K | 9.5% | 8.0% | 2% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | 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 Tremont, the top three, the last and three more from Maine.
Bordering towns draw 22% of Tremont’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Tremont workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tremont | – | B− | B− | 24 min | $88,803 |
| Southwest Harbor | 17% | C− | B+ | 16 min | $59,205 |
| Frenchboro | under 2% | — | — | 16 min | — |
| Mount Desert | 5% | B− | A− | 18 min | $92,813 |
| Brooklin | under 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Blue Hill | under 2% | C+ | A− | 21 min | $80,377 |
Same-state neighbors only. Frenchboro and Brooklin: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Southwest Harbor. Darker towns draw more of Tremont’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 Tremont: questions
What is the median household income in Tremont?
$88,803 (±$8,456) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,733 across Maine and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tremont?
6.6%, against 10.7% across Maine and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tremont?
24 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Maine and 26 nationally. 21% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tremont work?
19% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Southwest Harbor (17%, 7 mi), Bar Harbor (14%, 14 mi), Ellsworth (6%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Tremont walkable?
Tremont is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.1 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Tremont without a car?
2% 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 Tremont, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tremont
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.