Photo: Ascended Dreamer · CC BY-SA 4.0Glover has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Only 7% stay in Glover for work; outside it, Barton is the main destination (12%, 8 miles). 169 jobs are based in Glover, against 442 working residents. Glover grades C 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
Glover and work: the main findings
Income, poverty and work: Glover’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Glover is better than 28% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Glover’s grade up (9.3%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 4% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (3.1%) is left out: Glover’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Glover could be anywhere from D to B.
The daily trip from Glover: about 40 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Glover workers work from home, vs 17% across Vermont. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 417 commuters (the 17% 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.
Glover quiets down on a workday
On a workday 411 residents head out to work, 31 work right here, and 138 people come in from elsewhere.
About 800 people are in Glover on a workday afternoon, 25% 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.
Where Glover goes to work
Where Glover clocks in
12% of workers
9% of workers
8% 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.
In Glover, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Glover, 2013 → 2023: 177 → 169. 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 Glover’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many miles Glover commutes
About 16% 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 Glover, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Glover is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 10.3% 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 501 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). 3.0% of Glover households have no vehicle (Vermont 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Glover’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Glover is 2,174th among 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 388 | Bolton VT | 1,277 | $111K | 2.9% | 1.1% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 505 | Cornwall VT | 1,290 | $115K | 0.8% | 7.4% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 654 | West Windsor VT | 1,355 | $109K | 3.7% | 3.4% | 5% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,172 | Gibson Township MI | 1,107 | $62K | 6.6% | 3.3% | 1% | C |
| 2,173 | Cleveland Township PA | 1,154 | $72K | 12.7% | 9.5% | 1% | C |
| 2,174 | Glover VT | 1,076 | $74K | 9.3% | 3.1% | 7% | C |
| 2,175 | Stetson ME | 1,243 | $76K | 10.4% | 3.8% | 3% | C |
| 2,176 | Ledyard NY | 1,350 | $87K | 14.9% | 5.6% | 20% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Glover, the top three, the last and three more from Vermont.
Glover and its neighbors: 21% work next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Glover workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glover | – | C | B+ | 40 min | $73,839 |
| Greensboro | 9% | — | — | 32 min | — |
| Sheffield | under 3% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Barton | 12% | C | A− | 35 min | $66,250 |
Same-state neighbors only. Greensboro and Sheffield: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Barton. Darker towns draw more of Glover’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 Glover: questions
What is the median household income in Glover?
$73,839 (±$17,597) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $81,203 across Vermont and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Glover?
9.3%, against 10.1% across Vermont and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Glover?
40 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Vermont and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Glover work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Barton (12%, 8 mi), Greensboro (9%, 6 mi), Hardwick (8%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Glover walkable?
Glover is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.2 out of 20, and 10% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Glover without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Glover, from the people who make the trip.
More of Glover
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.