Photo: Ascended Dreamer · CC BY 4.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Brownington works elsewhere
Home is the office for 6% of workers, against 17% across Vermont. There are 34 jobs in Brownington; 390 of its residents have a job. Brownington grades D for jobs and income and D for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Brownington in brief
Brownington is a place people come home to
There are 34 jobs based in Brownington, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Brownington has about 660 people in it, 35% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A lot of Brownington works one town over
28% of working residents work in a town that borders Brownington: Barton (14%), Derby (10%) and Coventry (4%). Next door ↓
Brownington workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 33 minutes each way, against 24 across Vermont. Over a year that’s about 253 hours of commuting, 69 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 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 390 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Brownington’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Brownington is better than 12% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Brownington’s grade up ($75,556, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 2% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (4.6%) is left out: Brownington’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, Brownington could be anywhere from D− to C.
Brownington by day and by night
On a workday 387 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 31 people come in from elsewhere.
About 660 people are in Brownington on a workday afternoon, 35% 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.
The daily trip from Brownington: about 33 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Brownington workers work from home, vs 17% across Vermont. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 519 commuters (the 6% 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.
18% of working residents work in Newport
Where Brownington clocks in
14% of workers
10% 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.
What Brownington’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Brownington, 2013 → 2023: 34 → 34. 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 Brownington’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Brownington, by distance
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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Most of Brownington commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Brownington is more walkable than 9% 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 552 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). 5.4% of Brownington households have no vehicle (Vermont 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Brownington’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400, Brownington comes 2,457th 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 307 | Bolton VT | 1,277 | $111K | 2.9% | 1.1% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 405 | Cornwall VT | 1,290 | $115K | 0.8% | 7.4% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 523 | West Windsor VT | 1,355 | $109K | 3.7% | 3.4% | 5% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,455 | Waymart PA | 1,287 | $52K | 21.1% | 1.7% | 4% | D |
| 2,456 | Basin WY | 1,334 | $66K | 14.9% | 0.0% | 26% | D |
| 2,457 | Brownington VT | 1,016 | $76K | 21.5% | 4.6% | 1% | D |
| 2,458 | Bouse AZ | 1,203 | $48K | 8.9% | 4.5% | 1% | D |
| 2,459 | Carlsborg WA | 1,231 | $51K | 13.6% | 0.8% | 6% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 Brownington, the top three, the last and three more from Vermont.
Next door is work for 28% of Brownington
The biggest share goes to Barton (14%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Brownington workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brownington | – | D | D | 33 min | $75,556 |
| Barton | 14% | C | A− | 35 min | $66,250 |
| Coventry | 4% | D | C− | 36 min | $59,342 |
| Derby | 10% | C | B+ | 32 min | $80,250 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Brownington’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 Brownington: questions
What is the median household income in Brownington?
$75,556 (±$17,399) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $81,203 across Vermont and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Brownington?
21.5%, against 10.1% across Vermont and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Brownington?
33 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Vermont and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Brownington work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Newport (18%, 8 mi), Barton (14%, 4 mi), Derby (10%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Brownington walkable?
Brownington is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Brownington without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Brownington, from the people who make the trip.
More of Brownington
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.