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Work & commute · Orleans

Work & commute in Orleans, VT

Most working residents leave Orleans for work: only 11% work in town. The top destinations are Barton (22%), Newport (14%) and Derby (7%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
11%
37 of 338 working residents
Typical commute
14 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
31 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
8%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 301 Orleans residents head out of town to work, 37 work right here, and 527 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Orleans.

301live here, work elsewhere
37live and work here
527work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Orleans goes to work

OrleansNewportSouth BurlingtonBrightonTroyIrasburgGloverBartonDerbySt. JohnsburyCoventryCraftsburyGreensboroBrowningtonLyndonBartonNewportDerbyLyndonIrasburgSt. JohnsburyGreensboroSouth BurlingtonGloverBrightonOrleans
1
Barton3.8 mi away
22%73
2
Newport8.8 mi away
14%47
3
Derby10.3 mi away
7%24
4
Lyndon20.2 mi away
4%12
5
Irasburg4 mi away
3%10
6
St. Johnsbury26.1 mi away
3%10
7
Greensboro15 mi away
3%10
8
South Burlington54.6 mi away
2%8
9
Glover9.2 mi away
2%8
10
Brighton16.3 mi away
2%7
Everywhere elseother towns and states
38%129

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

How far

How far Orleans commutes

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

44%Under 10 mi
21%10–24 mi
14%25–50 mi
20%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Orleans is a job hub

1.67jobs per working resident
A job hub

1.7 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Orleans are

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

Jobs based in Orleans

564 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)49%
Trade, transport & utilities16%
Services (health, schools, offices…)35%
$1,250 a month or less12%
$1,251–$3,333 a month51%
Over $3,333 a month38%

Jobs Orleans residents hold

338 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)26%
Trade, transport & utilities19%
Services (health, schools, offices…)55%
$1,250 a month or less18%
$1,251–$3,333 a month33%
Over $3,333 a month49%
+0%

Jobs based in Orleans, 2013 → 2023: 563 → 564. 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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