96% of South Eliot’s working residents leave town for work
Most working residents leave South Eliot for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Portsmouth (14%), Eliot (11%) and Kittery (10%). Half commute less than 7 miles.
What kind of work town is South Eliot?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
14% of working residents work in Portsmouth
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where South Eliot clocks in
14% of workers
11% of workers
10% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
37% of South Eliot works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Portsmouth (14%). Darker towns draw more of South Eliot’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Average commute minutes, one way
65% of the jobs in South Eliot pay over $3,333 a month
507 jobs are based in South Eliot. Here is what they are, next to the jobs South Eliot’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in South Eliot, 2013 → 2023: 406 → 507. 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.
South Eliot quiets down on a workday
On a workday 1,437 residents head out to work, 58 work right here, and 449 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,200 people are in South Eliot on a workday afternoon, 24% fewer than live here.
0.34 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.
Half of South Eliot commutes less than 7 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
About 21 minutes each way, quicker than most of Maine
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of South Eliot workers work from home, vs 16% across Maine. Their commute is the hallway.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
- Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
More of South Eliot
Commuter talk
Getting to work from South Eliot, from the people who make the trip.
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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.