Photo: Malber · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Dummerston works elsewhere
The two grades for Dummerston are A− for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Dummerston has 295 jobs, against 825 working residents. 26% of workers have no commute at all, against 17% across Vermont.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Dummerston and work: the main findings
A lot of Dummerston works one town over
41% of working residents work in a town that borders Dummerston: Brattleboro (35%), Putney (3%) and Newfane (3%). Next door ↓
A lot of Dummerston works from home
26% of Dummerston workers work from home, against 17% across Vermont. 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 825 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Dummerston’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Dummerston is better than 78% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Dummerston’s grade up (1.6%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 25% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Dummerston could be anywhere from B to A.
About 21 minutes each way for Dummerston’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dummerston workers work from home, vs 17% across Vermont. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 752 commuters (the 26% 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 many people are in Dummerston by day
On a workday 781 residents head out to work, 44 work right here, and 251 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Dummerston on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
35% of working residents work in Brattleboro
Where Dummerston clocks in
35% of workers
3% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 60% of the jobs in Dummerston
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dummerston, 2013 → 2023: 288 → 295. 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 Dummerston’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Dummerston, by distance
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.
In Dummerston, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Dummerston is more walkable than 51% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.2% across Vermont, on an EPA index of 5.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,015 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 0.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 53% 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). 0.0% of Dummerston households have no vehicle (Vermont 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Dummerston’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,656 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500, Dummerston comes 770th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
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| 703 | South Hero VT | 1,726 | $127K | 3.5% | 5.9% | 7% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 768 | Pemberville OH | 1,334 | $88K | 5.4% | 1.1% | 4% | A− |
| 769 | Rock Creek Township IN | 1,432 | $94K | 2.4% | 3.3% | 1% | A− |
| 770 | Dummerston VT | 1,859 | $102K | 4.5% | 1.6% | 5% | A− |
| 771 | Pine Valley CA | 1,786 | $133K | 2.9% | 28.9% | 2% | A− |
| 772 | Lewisville WA | 2,465 | $126K | 3.3% | 3.8% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 889 | Westford VT | 2,072 | $113K | 2.5% | 4.0% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 904 | Middlesex VT | 1,842 | $110K | 3.8% | 3.0% | 5% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Dummerston, the top three, the last and three more from Vermont.
Next door is work for 41% of Dummerston
The biggest share goes to Brattleboro (35%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Dummerston workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dummerston | – | A− | B− | 21 min | $101,696 |
| Brattleboro | 35% | C− | A+ | 19 min | $58,241 |
| Putney | 3% | C | B+ | 18 min | $79,706 |
| Newfane | 3% | C− | C+ | 27 min | $66,719 |
| Marlboro | under 2% | C+ | B | 17 min | $77,135 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Dummerston’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 Dummerston: questions
What is the median household income in Dummerston?
$101,696 (±$21,365) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $81,203 across Vermont and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dummerston?
4.5%, against 10.1% across Vermont and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dummerston?
21 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Vermont and 26 nationally. 26% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dummerston work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Brattleboro (35%, 5 mi), Putney (3%, 6 mi), Newfane (3%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Dummerston walkable?
Dummerston is more walkable than 51% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.4 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Dummerston without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dummerston, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dummerston
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.