Photo: Ascended Dreamer · CC BY 4.0Albany has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Hardly any work in Albany itself; outside it, Morristown draws the most (9%, 18 miles). Albany has 13 jobs; 53 of its residents have a job. For 9% of workers, the job is at home, against 17% across Vermont.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Albany by day and by night
On a workday 53 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 13 people come in from elsewhere.
About 140 people are in Albany on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
Where Albany goes to work
Where Albany clocks in
9% of workers
9% 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.
In Albany, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Albany, 2013 → 2023: 20 → 13. 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 Albany’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 20 minutes in Albany
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Albany workers work from home, vs 17% across Vermont. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 61 commuters (the 9% 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.
How far it is to work from Albany
About 17% 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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
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 Albany: questions
What is the poverty rate in Albany?
3.7%, against 10.1% across Vermont and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Albany?
20 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Vermont and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Albany work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Morristown (9%, 18 mi), Craftsbury (9%, 6 mi), Montpelier (6%, 33 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Albany without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Albany, from the people who make the trip.
More of Albany
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.