Photo: Ascended Dreamer · CC BY 4.0Jobs and the daily commute in Derby Line
Only 6% work in Derby Line; the top destination outside it is Newport (27%, 7 miles). Working residents average 24 minutes each way, next to 24 for Vermont and 26 for the U.S. There are 359 jobs in Derby Line for 317 working residents.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Derby Line in brief
Fewer jobs are based in Derby Line than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Derby Line fell from 564 in 2013 to 359 in 2023, −36%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Derby Line makes and builds things
36% of the jobs based in Derby Line are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Derby Line residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 19%. The jobs ↓
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 317 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
In Derby Line, 36% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Derby Line, 2013 → 2023: 564 → 359. 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 Line’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In and out of Derby Line on a workday
On a workday 298 residents head out to work, 19 work right here, and 340 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 (1.13 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.
Out of Derby Line to work: where people go
Where Derby Line clocks in
26% 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.
About 24 minutes each way for Derby Line’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Derby Line workers work from home, vs 17% across Vermont. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 326 commuters (the 14% 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.
How far Derby Line goes to work
About 26% 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.
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 Line: questions
What is the median household income in Derby Line?
$71,518 (±$25,099) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $81,203 across Vermont and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Derby Line?
7.3%, against 10.1% across Vermont and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Derby Line?
24 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Vermont and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Derby Line work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Newport (27%, 7 mi), Derby (26%, 4 mi), Barton (5%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Derby Line without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Derby Line, from the people who make the trip.
More of Derby Line
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.