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Work & commute in Orange, VT

Most working residents leave Orange for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Barre (18%), Berlin (12%) and Montpelier (10%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
1%
4 of 488 working residents
Typical commute
12 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
28 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
14%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 484 Orange residents head out of town to work, 4 work right here, and 17 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Orange.

484live here, work elsewhere
4live and work here
17work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Orange goes to work

WatertownBarreMontpelierSouth BurlingtonKingfieldNorth ElbaHartfordFairfaxOrangeRandolphCorinthHinesburgBarreWaterburyBerlinNorthfieldGrotonWilliamstownWashingtonTopshamBarreBerlinMontpelierBarreWilliamstownNorthfieldWashingtonRandolphHartfordWaterburyOrange
1
Barre7.6 mi away
18%86
2
Berlin12.6 mi away
12%57
3
Montpelier12.3 mi away
10%49
4
Barre5.8 mi away
6%30
5
Williamstown10.1 mi away
6%28
6
Northfield16.6 mi away
3%15
7
Washington7.5 mi away
3%14
8
Randolph21.5 mi away
3%13
9
Hartford35.3 mi away
2%11
10
Waterbury23.9 mi away
2%9
Everywhere elseother towns and states
36%176

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

How far

How far Orange commutes

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

43%Under 10 mi
29%10–24 mi
12%25–50 mi
16%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Orange is a commuter town

0.04jobs per working resident
A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Orange are

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

Jobs based in Orange

21 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)48%
Trade, transport & utilities10%
Services (health, schools, offices…)43%
$1,250 a month or less38%
$1,251–$3,333 a month24%
Over $3,333 a month38%

Jobs Orange residents hold

488 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)21%
Trade, transport & utilities20%
Services (health, schools, offices…)59%
$1,250 a month or less14%
$1,251–$3,333 a month20%
Over $3,333 a month66%
−78%

Jobs based in Orange, 2013 → 2023: 95 → 21. 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.

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