Work & commute · Phillips

Work & commute in Phillips, ME

Most working residents leave Phillips for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Rangeley (10%), Rumford (8%) and Augusta (6%). Half commute less than 27 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

15 of 397 working residents

Typical commute

27 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

17%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 382 Phillips residents head out of town to work, 15 work right here, and 91 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Phillips.

382live here, work elsewhere

15live and work here

91work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Phillips goes to work

Rangeley19.5 mi away

10%40

Rumford23.2 mi away

8%31

Augusta47 mi away

6%22

Phillips (in town)right here

4%15

Portland84 mi away

4%14

Strong8.8 mi away

3%13

Farmington16 mi away

3%12

Mexico20.9 mi away

3%11

Lewiston52.9 mi away

3%10

Auburn52.7 mi away

3%10

Everywhere elseother towns and states

55%219

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

How far

How far Phillips commutes

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

40%

22%

30%

8%Under 10 mi

40%10–24 mi

22%25–50 mi

30%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Phillips is a commuter town

0.27jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.27 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Phillips are

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

Jobs based in Phillips

106 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities12%

Services (health, schools, offices…)72%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month44%

Over $3,333 a month37%

Jobs Phillips residents hold

397 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month58%

−5%

Jobs based in Phillips, 2013 → 2023: 111 → 106. 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.