Photo: User:Magicpiano · CC BY-SA 4.0Cabot at work: jobs, income and the commute
About one in ten work in Cabot itself; outside it, Montpelier draws the most (16%, 16 miles). For jobs and income Cabot is better than 36% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns (B−). A typical one-way commute lasts 30 minutes (Vermont 24, U.S. 26).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Cabot stands out on work
Cabot makes and builds things
80% of the jobs based in Cabot are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Cabot residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 19%. The jobs ↓
Most jobs in Cabot pay over $40,000 a year
79% of the jobs based in Cabot pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), the top earnings band in the Census data. The jobs ↓
Cabot workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 30 minutes each way, against 24 across Vermont. Over a year that’s about 230 hours of commuting, 46 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 540 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Cabot
The poverty rate holds Cabot’s grade up (9.0%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 14% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (1.7%) is left out: Cabot’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Cabot could be anywhere from D to B.
In Cabot, 80% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
633 jobs are based in Cabot.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cabot, 2013 → 2023: 141 → 633. 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 Cabot’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Cabot: about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cabot workers work from home, vs 17% across Vermont. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 606 commuters (the 21% 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.
A workday in Cabot: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 490 residents head out to work, 50 work right here, and 583 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.17 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Cabot: the destinations
Where Cabot clocks in
16% 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.
The distance from Cabot to work
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.
Few in Cabot walk, bike or ride to work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 7.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.2% across Vermont, on an EPA index of 4.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 771 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). 2.1% of Cabot households have no vehicle (Vermont 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Cabot’s commuters take a bus or train.
Cabot is 3,177th of 6,308 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000 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 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 640 | South Hero VT | 1,726 | $127K | 3.5% | 5.9% | 7% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 705 | Dummerston VT | 1,859 | $102K | 4.5% | 1.6% | 5% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 726 | Bolton VT | 1,277 | $111K | 2.9% | 1.1% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,175 | Belmont ME | 1,021 | $61K | 4.3% | 6.9% | <1% | C+ |
| 3,176 | Brady Township PA | 1,008 | $73K | 6.8% | 5.3% | 2% | C+ |
| 3,177 | Cabot VT | 1,470 | $77K | 9.0% | 1.7% | 9% | C+ |
| 3,178 | Belle Plaine WI | 1,756 | $75K | 12.5% | 3.3% | 2% | C+ |
| 3,179 | Divernon IL | 1,107 | $72K | 16.1% | 5.7% | 2% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | 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 Cabot, the top three, the last and three more from Vermont.
Around Cabot: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Danville (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Cabot workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cabot | – | C+ | B− | 30 min | $77,031 |
| Danville | 3% | B | C− | 33 min | $70,946 |
| Marshfield | 3% | C− | C+ | 29 min | $60,313 |
| Walden | under 3% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Peacham | under 3% | — | — | 31 min | — |
| Woodbury | under 3% | — | — | 34 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Walden: not graded. Peacham and Woodbury: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Cabot’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 Cabot: questions
What is the median household income in Cabot?
$77,031 (±$16,166) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $81,203 across Vermont and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cabot?
9.0%, against 10.1% across Vermont and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cabot?
30 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Vermont and 26 nationally. 21% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cabot work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Montpelier (16%, 16 mi), Barre (8%, 17 mi), Berlin (7%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cabot walkable?
Cabot is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 4.3 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cabot without a car?
<1% 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 Cabot, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cabot
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.