Photo: User:Magicpiano · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Fayston have higher incomes than those in 84% of U.S. towns
26% of workers have no commute at all, where Vermont as a whole has 17%. 4.2% of residents live below the poverty line, where Vermont as a whole has 10.1%. The two grades for Fayston are B for jobs and income and A− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Fayston, in brief
A lot of Fayston works one town over
27% of working residents work in a town that borders Fayston: Warren (14%) and Waitsfield (13%). Next door ↓
Fayston has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Fayston went from 378 in 2013 to 647 in 2023, +71%. The jobs ↓
Many jobs in Fayston pay little
28% of the jobs based in Fayston pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. 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 571 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
The four measures behind Fayston’s grade
On income, poverty and job access, Fayston is better than 64% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Fayston’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 7% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (3.3%) is left out: Fayston’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, Fayston could be anywhere from C+ to B+.
Services make up most of the work in Fayston
647 jobs are based in Fayston.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fayston, 2013 → 2023: 378 → 647. 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 Fayston’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In and out of Fayston on a workday
On a workday 481 residents head out to work, 90 work right here, and 557 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.
14% of working residents work in Warren
Where Fayston clocks in
14% of workers
13% 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.
Commuting from Fayston: about 29 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fayston workers work from home, vs 17% across Vermont. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 555 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.
Where in the region Fayston works
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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Fayston
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Fayston is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Fayston near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 752 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). 0.7% of Fayston households have no vehicle (Vermont 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Fayston’s commuters take a bus or train.
Fayston places 1,328th of 5,877 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 587 | South Hero VT | 1,726 | $127K | 3.5% | 5.9% | 7% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 645 | Dummerston VT | 1,859 | $102K | 4.5% | 1.6% | 5% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 666 | Bolton VT | 1,277 | $111K | 2.9% | 1.1% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,326 | East Carroll Township PA | 1,413 | $81K | 4.8% | 4.0% | 2% | B |
| 1,327 | Kickapoo Township KS | 1,857 | $87K | 3.3% | 2.6% | 6% | B |
| 1,328 | Fayston VT | 1,400 | $110K | 4.2% | 3.3% | 16% | B |
| 1,329 | Seymour WI | 1,201 | $88K | 9.4% | 2.0% | 2% | B |
| 1,330 | Butler WI | 1,752 | $60K | 11.8% | 2.7% | 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 Fayston, the top three, the last and three more from Vermont.
Work next door: 27% of Fayston’s workers
The biggest share goes to Warren (14%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Fayston workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fayston | – | B | A− | 29 min | $110,250 |
| Waitsfield | 13% | B− | A− | 25 min | $84,375 |
| Duxbury | under 3% | B+ | C+ | 23 min | $105,208 |
| Warren | 14% | C | B | 19 min | $86,905 |
| Moretown | under 3% | B+ | C | 25 min | $104,423 |
| Lincoln | under 3% | B− | C | 30 min | $96,667 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Fayston’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 Fayston: questions
What is the median household income in Fayston?
$110,250 (±$27,966) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $81,203 across Vermont and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fayston?
4.2%, against 10.1% across Vermont and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fayston?
29 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Vermont and 26 nationally. 26% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fayston work?
16% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Warren (14%, 8 mi), Waitsfield (13%, 5 mi), Burlington (5%, 26 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Fayston walkable?
Fayston is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 8.2 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Fayston without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fayston, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fayston
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.