Work & commute · Cranberry Isles

Work & commute in Cranberry Isles, ME

Most working residents leave Cranberry Isles for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Southwest Harbor (26%), Bar Harbor (17%) and Tremont (8%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

1 of 53 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 52 Cranberry Isles residents head out of town to work, 1 work right here, and 54 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Cranberry Isles.

52live here, work elsewhere

1live and work here

54work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Cranberry Isles goes to work

Southwest Harbor4.2 mi away

26%14

Bar Harbor9.7 mi away

17%9

Tremont11.4 mi away

8%4

Portland106.5 mi away

6%3

Bangor48.1 mi away

6%3

Ellsworth25.5 mi away

4%2

Hancock18.6 mi away

4%2

Trenton16.3 mi away

4%2

Mount Desert7.2 mi away

4%2

South Portland111.2 mi away

2%1

Everywhere elseother towns and states

21%11

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Cranberry Isles commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

45%

26%

11%

17%

45%Under 10 mi

26%10–24 mi

11%25–50 mi

17%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Cranberry Isles is balanced between jobs and homes

1.04jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.04 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Cranberry Isles are

55 jobs are based in Cranberry Isles. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Cranberry Isles’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Cranberry Isles

55 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities42%

Services (health, schools, offices…)45%

$1,250 a month or less25%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month44%

Jobs Cranberry Isles residents hold

53 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month49%

+104%

Jobs based in Cranberry Isles, 2013 → 2023: 27 → 55. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.