Photo: Redjar at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Bridport has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Jobs and income earn Bridport B−; getting around on foot earns it C−. Bridport has 173 jobs, and 536 of its residents work somewhere. Only 2% work in Bridport itself; outside it, Middlebury draws the most (36%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Bridport: the gist
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Bridport
On income, poverty and job access, Bridport is better than 51% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Bridport’s grade up (4.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 6% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Bridport’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, Bridport could be anywhere from C to B+.
Where Bridport goes to work
Where Bridport clocks in
36% of workers
6% of workers
5% 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 and out of Bridport on a workday
On a workday 525 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 162 people come in from elsewhere.
About 890 people are in Bridport on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
In Bridport, 39% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bridport, 2013 → 2023: 153 → 173. 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 Bridport’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 27 minutes from Bridport
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bridport workers work from home, vs 17% across Vermont. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 604 commuters (the 13% 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.
The commute from Bridport, by distance
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 Bridport: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bridport is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 7.2% across Vermont.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 692 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). 1.5% of Bridport households have no vehicle (Vermont 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bridport’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Bridport is 1,619th among 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 529 | Bolton VT | 1,277 | $111K | 2.9% | 1.1% | 2% | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,617 | Erving MA | 1,651 | $78K | 5.2% | 3.7% | 6% | B− |
| 1,618 | Kinderhook Township MI | 1,452 | $83K | 7.5% | 1.6% | 1% | B− |
| 1,619 | Bridport VT | 1,251 | $83K | 4.4% | 0.0% | 2% | B− |
| 1,620 | West Van Lear KY | 1,155 | $67K | 3.5% | 0.0% | 0% | B− |
| 1,621 | Columbus AFB MS | 1,293 | $70K | 6.3% | 1.9% | 4% | 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 Bridport, the top three, the last and three more from Vermont.
The towns around Bridport
The biggest share goes to Shoreham (6%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Bridport workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bridport | – | B− | C− | 27 min | $83,214 |
| Addison | under 2% | B | C+ | 28 min | $106,667 |
| Shoreham | 6% | B− | B− | 26 min | $93,654 |
| Cornwall | under 2% | B+ | D | 24 min | $114,583 |
| Weybridge | under 2% | — | — | 18 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Weybridge: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Bridport’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 Bridport: questions
What is the median household income in Bridport?
$83,214 (±$17,776) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $81,203 across Vermont and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bridport?
4.4%, against 10.1% across Vermont and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bridport?
27 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Vermont and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bridport work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Middlebury (36%, 11 mi), Shoreham (6%, 6 mi), Orwell (5%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bridport walkable?
Bridport is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bridport without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bridport, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bridport
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.