Work & commute · Vergennes

Work & commute in Vergennes, VT

About one in 5 of Vergennes’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Middlebury (16%), Burlington (10%) and South Burlington (7%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

20%

266 of 1,359 working residents

Typical commute

16 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

21 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

16%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,093 Vergennes residents head out of town to work, 266 work right here, and 1,356 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Vergennes.

1,093live here, work elsewhere

266live and work here

1,356work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Vergennes goes to work

Vergennes (in town)right here

20%266

Middlebury13.3 mi away

16%214

Burlington22.4 mi away

10%133

South Burlington18.9 mi away

7%99

Williston19.7 mi away

5%69

Ferrisburgh2.7 mi away

4%56

Shelburne15.3 mi away

3%47

Colchester26.7 mi away

3%36

Essex Junction23.4 mi away

3%35

Bristol11.3 mi away

2%29

Everywhere elseother towns and states

28%375

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

How far

How far Vergennes commutes

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

32%

50%

10%

32%Under 10 mi

50%10–24 mi

8%25–50 mi

10%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Vergennes is balanced between jobs and homes

1.19jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.19 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Vergennes are

1,622 jobs are based in Vergennes. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Vergennes’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Vergennes

1,622 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)52%

Trade, transport & utilities6%

Services (health, schools, offices…)42%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month16%

Over $3,333 a month74%

Jobs Vergennes residents hold

1,359 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month66%

+8%

Jobs based in Vergennes, 2013 → 2023: 1,508 → 1,622. 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.