Troy Meeting House · Photo: Timothy Krause · CC BY 2.0Troy has lower household incomes than 93% of U.S. towns
25% of workers work from home, where Maine as a whole has 16%. Below the poverty line: 17.8% of residents (Maine 10.7%). Troy grades D− for jobs and income and C− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Troy: the figures worth knowing
Troy workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 50 minutes each way, against 25 across Maine. Over a year that’s about 383 hours of commuting, 192 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Troy is a place people come home to
There are 59 jobs based in Troy, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Troy has about 790 people in it, 30% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Home offices are common in Troy
25% of Troy workers work from home, against 16% across Maine. 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 389 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Troy
On income, poverty and job access, Troy is better than 3% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Troy’s grade.
Unemployment (3.8%) is left out: Troy’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, Troy could be anywhere from D− to C−.
Each way, about 50 minutes from Troy
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 15.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Troy workers work from home, vs 16% across Maine. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 310 commuters (the 25% 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.
Troy by day and by night
On a workday 386 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 56 people come in from elsewhere.
About 790 people are in Troy on a workday afternoon, 30% fewer than live here.
0.15 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.
11% of working residents work in Unity
Where Troy clocks in
11% of workers
7% 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.
Inside Troy’s 59 jobs
59 jobs are based in Troy.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Troy, 2013 → 2023: 19 → 59. 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 Troy’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Troy works
About 16% 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 of Troy commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Troy is more walkable than 21% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.0% across Maine, on an EPA index of 3.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 415 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). 1.8% of Troy households have no vehicle (Maine 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Troy’s commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500, and where Troy sits
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 587 | Edgecomb ME | 1,214 | $109K | 5.6% | 3.1% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 904 | Georgetown ME | 1,101 | $84K | 6.3% | 3.5% | 4% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,008 | Wayne ME | 1,167 | $93K | 7.9% | 1.3% | 4% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,521 | Snyder OK | 1,214 | $41K | 22.7% | 2.6% | 12% | D− |
| 3,522 | Iva SC | 1,209 | $25K | 39.3% | 8.7% | 7% | D− |
| 3,523 | Troy ME | 1,116 | $45K | 17.8% | 3.8% | 1% | D− |
| 3,524 | Freeborn Township MO | 1,369 | $46K | 27.0% | 1.7% | 12% | D− |
| 3,525 | Mayo FL | 1,119 | $54K | 21.4% | 9.3% | 13% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Troy, the top three, the last and three more from Maine.
Work next door: 11% of Troy’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Unity. Darker towns draw more of Troy’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 Troy: questions
What is the median household income in Troy?
$44,583 (±$14,200) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,733 across Maine and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Troy?
17.8%, against 10.7% across Maine and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Troy?
50 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Maine and 26 nationally. 25% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Troy work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Unity (11%, 9 mi), Bangor (7%, 25 mi), Belfast (7%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Troy walkable?
Troy is more walkable than 21% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 3.0 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Troy without a car?
0% 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 Troy, from the people who make the trip.
More of Troy
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.