Photo: Ascended Dreamer · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Cavendish works elsewhere
About one in ten work in Cavendish; the top destination outside it is Springfield (17%, 10 miles). Employers in Cavendish report 264 jobs; 649 of its residents have a job. Cavendish grades B− for jobs and income and B− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Cavendish stands out on work
Cavendish and Springfield trade workers both ways
Springfield is the top workplace for Cavendish residents (17%) and also where the most people who work in Cavendish come from (13% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Cavendish are quick
The average trip to work takes 19 minutes, against 24 across Vermont. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Vermont 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 649 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Cavendish
On income, poverty and job access, Cavendish is better than 48% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Cavendish’s grade up (6.3%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 7% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (3.7%) is left out: Cavendish’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, Cavendish could be anywhere from C− to B+.
Commuting out of Cavendish: the destinations
Where Cavendish clocks in
17% of workers
4% 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.
How long Cavendish spends getting to work: about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cavendish workers work from home, vs 17% across Vermont. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 493 commuters (the 19% 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.
Who works in Cavendish, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 586 residents head out to work, 63 work right here, and 201 people come in from elsewhere.
About 990 people are in Cavendish on a workday afternoon, 28% 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.
Making and building: 38% of jobs based in Cavendish
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cavendish, 2013 → 2023: 328 → 264. 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 Cavendish’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many miles Cavendish commutes
About 20% 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 trips from Cavendish start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cavendish is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.2% across Vermont, on an EPA index of 6.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 605 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 0.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 47% 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). 2.2% of Cavendish households have no vehicle (Vermont 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Cavendish’s commuters take a bus or train.
Cavendish next to U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900: 2,144th of 5,877 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+ |
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| 587 | South Hero VT | 1,726 | $127K | 3.5% | 5.9% | 7% | A− |
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| 645 | Dummerston VT | 1,859 | $102K | 4.5% | 1.6% | 5% | A− |
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| 666 | Bolton VT | 1,277 | $111K | 2.9% | 1.1% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,142 | Moose Lake Township MN | 1,012 | $87K | 7.2% | 3.6% | 1% | B− |
| 2,143 | Susquehanna Township PA | 1,199 | $71K | 3.5% | 4.7% | 6% | B− |
| 2,144 | Cavendish VT | 1,373 | $89K | 6.3% | 3.7% | 10% | B− |
| 2,145 | Ventress LA | 1,166 | $71K | 9.2% | 0.0% | 1% | B− |
| 2,146 | Heth Township IN | 1,197 | $86K | 10.5% | 0.0% | 3% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | 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 Cavendish, the top three, the last and three more from Vermont.
Work next door: 15% of Cavendish’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Cavendish workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cavendish | – | B− | B− | 19 min | $89,063 |
| Baltimore | under 2% | — | — | 21 min | — |
| Reading | under 2% | — | — | 33 min | — |
| Ludlow | 15% | C | A− | 20 min | $54,885 |
| Weathersfield | under 2% | C+ | B− | 22 min | $83,095 |
Same-state neighbors only. Baltimore and Reading: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Ludlow. Darker towns draw more of Cavendish’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 Cavendish: questions
What is the median household income in Cavendish?
$89,063 (±$28,784) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $81,203 across Vermont and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cavendish?
6.3%, against 10.1% across Vermont and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cavendish?
19 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Vermont and 26 nationally. 18% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cavendish work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Springfield (17%, 10 mi), Ludlow (15%, 5 mi), Hartford (4%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cavendish walkable?
Cavendish is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.2 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cavendish 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 Cavendish, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cavendish
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.