Photo: Jared C. Benedict (Redjar at en.wikipedia); cropped by Beyond My Ken 21:17, 16 April 2012 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 2.0Marlboro has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
There are 173 jobs in Marlboro, and 350 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Marlboro C+; getting around on foot earns it B. 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
Marlboro and work: the main findings
Marlboro and Brattleboro trade workers both ways
Brattleboro is the top workplace for Marlboro residents (25%) and also where the most people who work in Marlboro come from (24% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
35% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Commutes from Marlboro are quick
The average trip to work takes 17 minutes, against 24 across Vermont. That’s about 54 hours a year less on the road than the typical Vermont worker. 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 350 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Marlboro
On income, poverty and job access, Marlboro is better than 40% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Marlboro’s grade up (7.9%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 15% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (7.9%) is left out: Marlboro’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, Marlboro could be anywhere from C− to B.
25% of working residents work in Brattleboro
Where Marlboro clocks in
25% of workers
10% 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.
How far Marlboro goes to work
About 35% 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.
Getting to work from Marlboro takes about 17 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Marlboro workers work from home, vs 17% across Vermont. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 387 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.
The daily flow of workers through Marlboro
On a workday 323 residents head out to work, 27 work right here, and 146 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,600 people are in Marlboro on a workday afternoon, 10% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Marlboro
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Marlboro, 2013 → 2023: 256 → 173. 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 Marlboro’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting around Marlboro: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Marlboro is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 21.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.2% across Vermont, on an EPA index of 4.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 523 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). 6.8% of Marlboro households have no vehicle (Vermont 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of Marlboro’s commuters take a bus or train.
Marlboro next to U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400: 2,963rd of 6,085 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
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| 718 | South Hero VT | 1,726 | $127K | 3.5% | 5.9% | 7% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 789 | Dummerston VT | 1,859 | $102K | 4.5% | 1.6% | 5% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 810 | Bolton VT | 1,277 | $111K | 2.9% | 1.1% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,961 | Porter Township PA | 1,539 | $74K | 13.0% | 5.6% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,962 | Blacklick Township PA | 1,831 | $57K | 5.4% | 3.9% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,963 | Marlboro VT | 1,776 | $77K | 7.9% | 7.9% | 8% | C+ |
| 2,964 | Waimea HI | 1,840 | $89K | 8.5% | 1.3% | 15% | C+ |
| 2,965 | Wilberforce OH | 1,951 | $67K | 15.6% | 16.2% | 4% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | 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 Marlboro, the top three, the last and three more from Vermont.
Marlboro and its neighbors: 28% work next door
The biggest share goes to Brattleboro (25%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Marlboro workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marlboro | – | C+ | B | 17 min | $77,135 |
| Halifax | under 2% | — | — | 33 min | — |
| Dover | 3% | C− | A | 22 min | $52,313 |
| Brattleboro | 25% | C− | A+ | 19 min | $58,241 |
| Dummerston | under 2% | A− | B− | 21 min | $101,696 |
Same-state neighbors only. Halifax: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Marlboro’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 Marlboro: questions
What is the median household income in Marlboro?
$77,135 (±$10,265) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $81,203 across Vermont and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Marlboro?
7.9%, against 10.1% across Vermont and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Marlboro?
17 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Vermont and 26 nationally. 26% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Marlboro work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Brattleboro (25%, 5 mi), Wilmington (10%, 6 mi), Dover (3%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Marlboro walkable?
Marlboro is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 4.8 out of 20, and 21% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Marlboro without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Marlboro, from the people who make the trip.
More of Marlboro
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.