Work & commute · St. Albans

Work & commute in St. Albans, VT

Most working residents leave St. Albans for work: only 16% work in town. The top destinations are St. Albans (19%), Burlington (11%) and South Burlington (7%). Half commute less than 20 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

16%

482 of 3,091 working residents

Typical commute

20 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

27 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

11%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 2,609 St. Albans residents head out of town to work, 482 work right here, and 3,900 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Albans.

2,609live here, work elsewhere

482live and work here

3,900work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Albans goes to work

St. Albans3 mi away

19%598

St. Albans (in town)right here

16%482

Burlington22.5 mi away

11%338

South Burlington26 mi away

7%220

Williston26.5 mi away

6%171

Colchester18.2 mi away

5%164

Swanton6.9 mi away

3%99

Georgia6.2 mi away

3%92

Milton11.5 mi away

3%86

Essex19.4 mi away

2%76

Everywhere elseother towns and states

25%765

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

How far

How far St. Albans commutes

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

42%

33%

14%

10%

42%Under 10 mi

33%10–24 mi

14%25–50 mi

10%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Albans is balanced between jobs and homes

1.42jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.42 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Albans are

4,382 jobs are based in St. Albans. Here is what they are, next to the jobs St. Albans’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in St. Albans

4,382 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities32%

Services (health, schools, offices…)46%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month59%

Jobs St. Albans residents hold

3,091 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month18%

Over $3,333 a month68%

−2%

Jobs based in St. Albans, 2013 → 2023: 4,477 → 4,382. 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.