Vanceboro has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
2 jobs are based in Vanceboro; 28 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Vanceboro itself; outside it, Baileyville draws the most (14%, 27 miles). Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers (Maine 16%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Vanceboro
On a workday 28 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 2 people come in from elsewhere.
About 77 people are in Vanceboro on a workday afternoon, 25% 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.
Where Vanceboro goes to work
Where Vanceboro clocks in
14% 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 kinds of work in Vanceboro
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Vanceboro, 2013 → 2023: 12 → 2. 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 Vanceboro’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 41 minutes to work from Vanceboro
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Vanceboro workers work from home, vs 16% across Maine. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 59 commuters (the 0% 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.
Vanceboro’s commute, mile by mile
About 71% 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.
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 Vanceboro: questions
What is the poverty rate in Vanceboro?
10.7%, against 10.7% across Maine and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Vanceboro?
41 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Maine and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Vanceboro work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Baileyville (14%, 27 mi), Danforth (11%, 18 mi), Bangor (7%, 82 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Vanceboro without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Vanceboro, from the people who make the trip.
More of Vanceboro
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.