Photo: Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0How Derby Center works: jobs, income and commuting
3% of workers work from home, where Vermont as a whole has 17%. About one in ten stay in Derby Center for work; outside it, Newport is the main destination (29%, 4 miles). The average commute takes 16 minutes each way, where Vermont has 24 and the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Derby Center apart on work
Derby Center is where the jobs are
Derby Center has 541 jobs, 1.7 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
29% of Derby Center works in Newport
93 working residents, 29%, have their main job in Newport, 3.9 miles away. That’s 3 times as many as work in Derby Center itself. The commute map ↓
Most Derby Center residents work close to home
60% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
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 320 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Who commutes out of Derby Center, and who commutes in
On a workday 288 residents head out to work, 32 work right here, and 509 people come in from elsewhere.
About 850 people are in Derby Center on a workday afternoon, 35% more than live here.
1.7 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where Derby Center’s workers come from
Where Derby Center clocks in
29% of workers
3% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Derby Center
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.
Inside Derby Center’s 541 jobs
541 jobs are based in Derby Center.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Derby Center, 2013 → 2023: 588 → 541. 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 Derby Center’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Derby Center takes about 16 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Derby Center workers work from home, vs 17% across Vermont. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 300 commuters (the 3% 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.
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 Derby Center: questions
What is the median household income in Derby Center?
$58,250 (±$10,432) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $81,203 across Vermont and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Derby Center?
12.6%, against 10.1% across Vermont and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Derby Center?
16 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Vermont and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Derby Center work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Newport (29%, 4 mi), Derby (29%, 0 mi), Burlington (3%, 63 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Derby Center without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Derby Center, from the people who make the trip.
More of Derby Center
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.