Work & commute · St. Albans

Work & commute in St. Albans, VT

About one in 5 of St. Albans’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are St. Albans (16%), Burlington (10%) and South Burlington (9%). Half commute less than 17 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

21%

686 of 3,265 working residents

Typical commute

17 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

12%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 2,579 St. Albans residents head out of town to work, 686 work right here, and 3,680 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Albans.

2,579live here, work elsewhere

686live and work here

3,680work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Albans goes to work

St. Albans (in town)right here

21%686

St. Albans3 mi away

16%517

Burlington23.3 mi away

10%313

South Burlington26.3 mi away

9%285

Colchester19.1 mi away

6%187

Williston26.4 mi away

5%168

Swanton7 mi away

3%113

Georgia6.5 mi away

3%103

Milton12 mi away

3%91

Essex18.9 mi away

3%87

Everywhere elseother towns and states

22%715

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.

45%

34%

14%

45%Under 10 mi

34%10–24 mi

14%25–50 mi

7%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Albans is balanced between jobs and homes

1.34jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.34 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Albans are

4,366 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

4,366 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)71%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month69%

Jobs St. Albans residents hold

3,265 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month64%

+4%

Jobs based in St. Albans, 2013 → 2023: 4,200 → 4,366. 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.