Work & commute · Bellows Falls

Work & commute in Bellows Falls, VT

Most working residents leave Bellows Falls for work: only 15% work in town. The top destinations are Rockingham (22%), Brattleboro (9%) and Westminster (9%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

15%

184 of 1,233 working residents

Typical commute

13 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 1,049 Bellows Falls residents head out of town to work, 184 work right here, and 691 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Bellows Falls.

1,049live here, work elsewhere

184live and work here

691work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Bellows Falls goes to work

Rockingham3.4 mi away

22%274

Brattleboro20.9 mi away

9%112

Westminster4.8 mi away

9%109

Walpole, NH4.7 mi away

8%95

Springfield10.9 mi away

6%70

Keene, NH14.7 mi away

4%53

Hartford36.8 mi away

2%25

Claremont, NH18.5 mi away

2%23

Lebanon, NH36.1 mi away

1%17

Chester13.5 mi away

1%17

Everywhere elseother towns and states

36%438

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

How far

How far Bellows Falls commutes

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

41%

33%

12%

13%

41%Under 10 mi

33%10–24 mi

12%25–50 mi

13%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Bellows Falls is a commuter town

0.71jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Bellows Falls are

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

Jobs based in Bellows Falls

875 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities32%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less25%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month51%

Jobs Bellows Falls residents hold

1,233 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)26%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)50%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month55%

−15%

Jobs based in Bellows Falls, 2013 → 2023: 1,035 → 875. 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.