Photo: Ascended Dreamer · CC BY 4.0Households in Irasburg earn more than those in 76% of U.S. towns
Working from home is the commute for 6% of workers, against 17% across Vermont. Poverty touches 2.5% of residents, next to 10.1% for Vermont as a whole. Jobs and income earn Irasburg B; getting around on foot earns it C−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Irasburg apart on work
Stores, warehouses and trucking
45% of the jobs in Irasburg are in trade, transport and utilities, against 16% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
The quickest commute around
Irasburg’s 24-minute average trip is shorter than in any town next door, where it runs from 28 to 55 minutes. Next door ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 443 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Irasburg’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Irasburg is better than 64% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Irasburg’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down. It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (1.8%) is left out: Irasburg’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, Irasburg could be anywhere from B− to B+.
The kinds of work in Irasburg
381 jobs are based in Irasburg.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Irasburg, 2014 → 2024: 327 → 381. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Irasburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How a workday changes Irasburg
On a workday 418 residents head out to work, 25 work right here, and 356 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 (0.86 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
10% of working residents work in Newport
Where Irasburg clocks in
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.
From Irasburg, about 24 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Irasburg workers work from home, vs 17% across Vermont. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 689 commuters (the 6% 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.
The distance from Irasburg to work
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Most of Irasburg commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Irasburg is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.2% across Vermont, on an EPA index of 4.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 731 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). 1.1% of Irasburg households have no vehicle (Vermont 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Irasburg’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600, Irasburg ranks 923rd of 4,312 on jobs and income
| # | 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 464 | Bolton VT | 1,277 | $111K | 2.9% | 1.1% | 2% | A− |
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| 595 | Cornwall VT | 1,290 | $115K | 0.8% | 7.4% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 769 | West Windsor VT | 1,355 | $109K | 3.7% | 3.4% | 7% | B+ |
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| 921 | Summerland CA | 1,348 | $96K | 12.2% | 12.0% | 4% | B |
| 922 | Oakfield WI | 1,065 | $91K | 9.0% | 0.0% | 3% | B |
| 923 | Irasburg VT | 1,199 | $99K | 2.5% | 1.8% | 6% | B |
| 924 | Pheasant Run OH | 1,258 | $65K | 4.1% | 5.6% | 0% | B |
| 925 | Rushmere VA | 1,033 | $74K | 2.6% | 4.8% | 0% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Irasburg, the top three, the last and three more from Vermont.
How Irasburg compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Barton (9%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Irasburg workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irasburg | – | B | C− | 24 min | $98,534 |
| Coventry | under 3% | D | C− | 36 min | $59,342 |
| Barton | 9% | C | A− | 35 min | $66,250 |
| Albany | under 3% | — | — | 28 min | — |
| Lowell | under 3% | — | — | 55 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Albany: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Lowell: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Irasburg’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 2024, 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 Irasburg: questions
What is the median household income in Irasburg?
$98,534 (±$12,557) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $81,203 across Vermont and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Irasburg?
2.5%, against 10.1% across Vermont and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Irasburg?
24 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Vermont and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Irasburg work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Newport (10%, 9 mi), Barton (9%, 7 mi), Morristown (8%, 26 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Irasburg walkable?
Irasburg is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.3 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Irasburg 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 Irasburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Irasburg
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.