Photo: Jonathan Leo Connor · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Addison commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Household incomes here are higher than in 81% of U.S. towns. Employers in Addison report 317 jobs, and 651 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for Addison are B for jobs and income and C+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Addison apart
Jobs & income in Addison: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Addison is better than 60% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Addison’s grade up (4.5%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 4% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (0.6%) is left out: Addison’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, Addison could be anywhere from B− to B+.
29% of working residents work in Middlebury
Where Addison clocks in
29% 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.
Who commutes out of Addison, and who commutes in
On a workday 630 residents head out to work, 21 work right here, and 296 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Addison on a workday afternoon, 25% 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 2023, primary jobs.
Goods, not services: 32% of the jobs in Addison
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Addison, 2013 → 2023: 162 → 317. 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 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Addison’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Addison: about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Addison workers work from home, vs 17% across Vermont. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 542 commuters (the 12% who work from home are left out). Across Vermont: 82% 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.
Miles to work from Addison
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Getting around Addison: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Addison is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.2% across Vermont, on an EPA index of 4.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 618 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.6% of Addison households have no vehicle (Vermont 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Addison’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Addison is 1,375th among 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 531 | South Hero VT | 1,726 | $127K | 3.5% | 5.9% | 7% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 603 | Bolton VT | 1,277 | $111K | 2.9% | 1.1% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 779 | Cornwall VT | 1,290 | $115K | 0.8% | 7.4% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,373 | Albion Township MN | 1,279 | $101K | 8.7% | 4.8% | <1% | B |
| 1,374 | Hooper Township NE | 1,079 | $77K | 4.8% | 1.2% | 6% | B |
| 1,375 | Addison VT | 1,352 | $107K | 4.5% | 0.6% | 3% | B |
| 1,376 | Buhler KS | 1,320 | $73K | 4.2% | 1.8% | 11% | B |
| 1,377 | Centerburg OH | 1,691 | $76K | 9.5% | 2.7% | 7% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Addison, the top three, the last and three more from Vermont.
The towns around Addison
The biggest share goes to New Haven (6%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Addison workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Addison | – | B | C+ | 28 min | $106,667 |
| Waltham | under 2% | — | — | 28 min | — |
| Bridport | under 2% | B− | C− | 27 min | $83,214 |
| Weybridge | under 2% | — | — | 18 min | — |
| Panton | under 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| New Haven | 6% | B | B | 22 min | $92,321 |
Same-state neighbors only. Waltham, Weybridge and Panton: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Addison’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 2023, 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 Addison: questions
What is the median household income in Addison?
$106,667 (±$7,181) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $81,203 across Vermont and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Addison?
4.5%, against 10.1% across Vermont and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Addison?
28 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Vermont and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Addison work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Middlebury (29%, 11 mi), Burlington (7%, 30 mi), New Haven (6%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Addison walkable?
Addison is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Addison without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Addison, from the people who make the trip.
More of Addison
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, 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.