Work & commute · Cabot

Work & commute in Cabot, VT

Most working residents leave Cabot for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Montpelier (16%), Barre (8%) and Berlin (7%). Half commute less than 18 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

50 of 540 working residents

Typical commute

18 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

30 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

21%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 490 Cabot residents head out of town to work, 50 work right here, and 583 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Cabot.

490live here, work elsewhere

50live and work here

583work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Cabot goes to work

Montpelier16.3 mi away

16%89

Cabot (in town)right here

9%50

Barre17 mi away

8%45

Berlin21.1 mi away

7%39

Plainfield11.9 mi away

6%32

East Montpelier12.5 mi away

5%25

Marshfield7 mi away

3%17

Barre16.9 mi away

3%14

Danville8.8 mi away

3%14

South Burlington44.2 mi away

2%13

Everywhere elseother towns and states

37%202

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

How far

How far Cabot commutes

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

16%

56%

19%

16%Under 10 mi

56%10–24 mi

19%25–50 mi

9%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Cabot is balanced between jobs and homes

1.17jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.17 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Cabot are

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

Jobs based in Cabot

633 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)80%

Trade, transport & utilities8%

Services (health, schools, offices…)12%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month11%

Over $3,333 a month79%

Jobs Cabot residents hold

540 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month19%

Over $3,333 a month66%

+349%

Jobs based in Cabot, 2013 → 2023: 141 → 633. 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.