Photo: User:Magicpiano · CC BY-SA 4.0Turner has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
There are 1,516 jobs in Turner, and 2,767 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for Turner are B+ for jobs and income and C for walkability. Measured by household income, Turner is ahead of 77% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Turner
Jobs & income in Turner: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Turner is better than 68% of U.S. towns, #43 of 143 in Maine. The poverty rate holds Turner’s grade up (3.0%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 27% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Turner could be anywhere from C to A.
The kinds of work in Turner
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Turner, 2013 → 2023: 1,410 → 1,516. 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 Turner’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who commutes out of Turner, and who commutes in
On a workday 2,420 residents head out to work, 347 work right here, and 1,169 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,900 people are in Turner on a workday afternoon, 20% 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.
21% of working residents work in Lewiston
Where Turner clocks in
21% of workers
17% 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.
The trip to work from Turner: about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Turner workers work from home, vs 16% across Maine. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,934 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Turner
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.
Getting around Turner: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Turner is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns, #97 of 143 in Maine. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.0% across Maine, on an EPA index of 5.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,286 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). 0.0% of Turner households have no vehicle (Maine 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Turner’s commuters take a bus or train.
1,239th of 3,370: where Turner ranks among U.S. towns of 4,300 to 8,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 347 | North Yarmouth ME | 4,424 | $129K | 4.8% | 1.9% | 7% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 713 | Arundel ME | 4,596 | $102K | 5.9% | 3.0% | 9% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 738 | Hollis ME | 5,003 | $96K | 5.7% | 1.8% | 6% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,237 | King NC | 7,977 | $58K | 7.0% | 1.0% | 7% | B+ |
| 1,238 | Fall Creek Township IN | 4,685 | $69K | 6.7% | 2.5% | 11% | B+ |
| 1,239 | Turner ME | 6,127 | $100K | 3.0% | 4.2% | 13% | B+ |
| 1,240 | Washington NY | 4,502 | $102K | 6.7% | 3.4% | 15% | B+ |
| 1,241 | Oakwood GA | 7,245 | $68K | 8.1% | 3.0% | 7% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,370 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Turner, the top three, the last and three more from Maine.
Next door to Turner
The biggest share goes to Greene (1%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Turner’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 Turner: questions
What is the median household income in Turner?
$100,036 (±$28,235) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,733 across Maine and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Turner?
3.0%, against 10.7% across Maine and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Turner?
25 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Maine and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Turner work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lewiston (21%, 13 mi), Auburn (17%, 13 mi), Portland (7%, 44 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Turner walkable?
Turner is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Turner without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Turner, from the people who make the trip.
More of Turner
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.