Photo: Robot psychiatrist · CC BY-SA 4.0Bolton has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Household incomes here are higher than in 84% of U.S. towns. 250 jobs are based in Bolton for 571 working residents. For jobs and income Bolton is better than 78% of U.S. towns (A−); for walkability it is more walkable than 26% of U.S. towns (C).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What’s behind Bolton’s Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Bolton’s grade up (2.9%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 29% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (1.1%) is left out: Bolton’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, Bolton could be anywhere from B+ to A−.
Bolton quiets down on a workday
On a workday 559 residents head out to work, 12 work right here, and 238 people come in from elsewhere.
About 960 people are in Bolton 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.
19% of working residents work in Burlington
Where Bolton clocks in
19% of workers
7% 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.
Most jobs in Bolton are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bolton, 2013 → 2023: 159 → 250. 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 Bolton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Bolton: about 28 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bolton workers work from home, vs 17% across Vermont. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 663 commuters (the 23% 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 Bolton
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.
In Bolton, most people drive to work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.2% across Vermont, on an EPA index of 4.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 860 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). 0.7% of Bolton households have no vehicle (Vermont 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bolton’s commuters take a bus or train.
Bolton next to U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700: 529th of 4,866 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 527 | Mason NH | 1,460 | $111K | 4.7% | 2.7% | 7% | A− |
| 528 | Dover Township OH | 1,572 | $100K | 4.3% | 4.4% | 3% | A− |
| 529 | Bolton VT | 1,277 | $111K | 2.9% | 1.1% | 2% | A− |
| 530 | Whitewater WI | 1,423 | $93K | 4.7% | 0.9% | 2% | A− |
| 531 | Green Camp Township OH | 1,087 | $103K | 1.2% | 3.4% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 679 | Cornwall VT | 1,290 | $115K | 0.8% | 7.4% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 873 | West Windsor VT | 1,355 | $109K | 3.7% | 3.4% | 5% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 904 | Duxbury VT | 1,444 | $105K | 2.7% | 4.7% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Bolton, the top three, the last and three more from Vermont.
Next door to Bolton
The biggest share goes to Jericho (5%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Bolton workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bolton | – | A− | C | 28 min | $111,125 |
| Duxbury | under 3% | B+ | C+ | 23 min | $105,208 |
| Richmond | 4% | A | C+ | 25 min | $108,235 |
| Jericho | 5% | A | B+ | 26 min | $116,923 |
| Waterbury | under 3% | B | B+ | 30 min | $103,917 |
| Huntington | under 3% | B+ | D | 32 min | $94,497 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Bolton’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 Bolton: questions
What is the median household income in Bolton?
$111,125 (±$17,013) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $81,203 across Vermont and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bolton?
2.9%, against 10.1% across Vermont and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bolton?
28 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Vermont and 26 nationally. 23% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bolton work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Burlington (19%, 19 mi), South Burlington (11%, 15 mi), Williston (7%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bolton walkable?
Bolton is more walkable than 26% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 4.2 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bolton 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 Bolton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bolton
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.