Photo: User:Magicpiano · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Wilmot commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
There are 111 jobs in Wilmot, against 669 working residents. Jobs and income earn Wilmot B+; getting around on foot earns it C−. Measured by household income, Wilmot is ahead of 87% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Wilmot: the figures worth knowing
Wilmot is a place people come home to
There are 111 jobs based in Wilmot, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Wilmot has about 910 people in it, 38% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Wilmot’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Wilmot is Concord, 23 miles away as the crow flies. 10% of working residents (64) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Wilmot workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 33 minutes each way, against 27 across New Hampshire. Over a year that’s about 253 hours of commuting, 46 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 669 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Wilmot
On income, poverty and job access, Wilmot is better than 70% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Wilmot’s grade up (2.3%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 8% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (1.6%) is left out: Wilmot’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Wilmot could be anywhere from B to B+.
Wilmot on a workday afternoon
On a workday 657 residents head out to work, 12 work right here, and 99 people come in from elsewhere.
About 910 people are in Wilmot on a workday afternoon, 38% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Wilmot
About 18% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Getting to work from Wilmot takes about 33 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wilmot workers work from home, vs 17% across New Hampshire. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 686 commuters (the 19% who work from home are left out). Across New Hampshire: 87% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
10% of working residents work in Concord
Where Wilmot clocks in
10% of workers
7% of workers
6% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Making and building: 35% of jobs based in Wilmot
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wilmot, 2014 → 2024: 117 → 111. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Wilmot’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In Wilmot, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Wilmot is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.6% across New Hampshire, on an EPA index of 5.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 846 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.3% of Wilmot households have no vehicle (New Hampshire 4.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Wilmot’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Wilmot is 1,095th among 6,308 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 167 | Newfields NH | 1,775 | $198K | 2.4% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 405 | Madbury NH | 1,927 | $148K | 4.9% | 2.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 724 | Mason NH | 1,460 | $111K | 4.7% | 2.7% | 7% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,093 | Cross Plains TN | 1,919 | $76K | 3.9% | 4.6% | <1% | B+ |
| 1,094 | Erie Township IL | 1,842 | $82K | 3.1% | 5.7% | 13% | B+ |
| 1,095 | Wilmot NH | 1,471 | $118K | 2.3% | 1.6% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,096 | Elsinboro Township NJ | 1,037 | $90K | 9.2% | 5.1% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,097 | Navarre Beach FL | 1,558 | $130K | 3.5% | 2.0% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Wilmot, the top three, the last and three more from New Hampshire.
Wilmot and its neighbors: 12% work next door
The biggest share goes to New London (7%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Wilmot workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wilmot | – | B+ | C− | 33 min | $117,759 |
| New London | 7% | B+ | A− | 25 min | $107,773 |
| Danbury | 5% | C− | D | 36 min | $71,685 |
| Andover | under 3% | B | C+ | 34 min | $88,514 |
| Springfield | under 3% | B+ | D | 34 min | $100,893 |
| Warner | under 3% | B+ | B | 32 min | $94,022 |
| Sutton | under 3% | B+ | C− | 29 min | $130,313 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Wilmot’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Wilmot: questions
What is the median household income in Wilmot?
$117,759 (±$15,178) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,031 across New Hampshire and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wilmot?
2.3%, against 7.2% across New Hampshire and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wilmot?
33 minutes each way on average, against 27 across New Hampshire and 26 nationally. 19% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wilmot work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Concord (10%, 23 mi), New London (7%, 4 mi), Manchester (6%, 40 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Wilmot walkable?
Wilmot is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Wilmot without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and <1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wilmot, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wilmot
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.