Work & commute · Calais

Work & commute in Calais, VT

Most working residents leave Calais for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Montpelier (18%), East Montpelier (10%) and Barre (6%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

27 of 538 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

31 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

23%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 511 Calais residents head out of town to work, 27 work right here, and 72 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Calais.

511live here, work elsewhere

27live and work here

72work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Calais goes to work

Montpelier8.4 mi away

18%97

East Montpelier5 mi away

10%54

Barre11.4 mi away

6%31

Hardwick12.4 mi away

6%30

Calais (in town)right here

5%27

Berlin13.9 mi away

4%23

Burlington39.2 mi away

4%22

South Burlington35.7 mi away

4%20

Morristown15.5 mi away

3%17

Stowe15.1 mi away

3%14

Everywhere elseother towns and states

38%203

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

How far

How far Calais commutes

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

32%

37%

21%

10%

32%Under 10 mi

37%10–24 mi

21%25–50 mi

10%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Calais is a commuter town

0.18jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Calais are

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

Jobs based in Calais

99 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)40%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)42%

$1,250 a month or less25%

$1,251–$3,333 a month7%

Over $3,333 a month68%

Jobs Calais residents hold

538 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)67%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month63%

−2%

Jobs based in Calais, 2013 → 2023: 101 → 99. 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.