Photo: User:Magicpiano · CC BY-SA 4.0Household incomes in Mendon top those of 77% of U.S. towns
For jobs and income Mendon is better than 57% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns (D). Below the poverty line: 8.2% of residents, next to 10.1% for Vermont as a whole. Only 4% work in Mendon itself; outside it, Killington draws the most (31%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Mendon in brief
A lot of Mendon works one town over
38% of working residents work in a town that borders Mendon: Killington (31%), Rutland (5%) and Shrewsbury (2%). Next door ↓
Most Mendon residents work close to home
61% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
44% of the jobs in Mendon are in trade, transport and utilities, against 15% of the jobs its residents hold. 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 572 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Mendon’s Jobs & income grade comes from
Household income holds Mendon’s grade up ($100,524, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 26% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (1.9%) is left out: Mendon’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, Mendon could be anywhere from C to A−.
Short hops and long hauls from Mendon
About 15% 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.
What work there is in Mendon: 356 jobs
356 jobs are based in Mendon.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mendon, 2013 → 2023: 183 → 356. 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 Mendon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Mendon by day and by night
On a workday 551 residents head out to work, 21 work right here, and 335 people come in from elsewhere.
About 950 people are in Mendon on a workday afternoon, 19% fewer than live here.
0.62 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Mendon: the destinations
Where Mendon clocks in
31% 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.
A commute of about 17 minutes in Mendon
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mendon workers work from home, vs 17% across Vermont. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 395 commuters (the 23% 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.
Most of Mendon commutes by car
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 7.2% across Vermont.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 510 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 1.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 58% 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 Mendon households have no vehicle (Vermont 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mendon’s commuters take a bus or train.
1,193rd of 4,312: where Mendon ranks among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 464 | Bolton VT | 1,277 | $111K | 2.9% | 1.1% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 595 | Cornwall VT | 1,290 | $115K | 0.8% | 7.4% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 769 | West Windsor VT | 1,355 | $109K | 3.7% | 3.4% | 5% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,191 | Center Township KS | 1,116 | $79K | 2.5% | 0.5% | 1% | B |
| 1,192 | Carbondale Township PA | 1,165 | $76K | 7.9% | 15.6% | 3% | B |
| 1,193 | Mendon VT | 1,167 | $101K | 8.2% | 1.9% | 4% | B |
| 1,194 | Eau Galle WI | 1,256 | $91K | 11.0% | 0.5% | <1% | B |
| 1,195 | Gun Club Estates FL | 1,050 | $82K | 18.9% | 17.6% | 0% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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 Mendon, the top three, the last and three more from Vermont.
Next door is work for 38% of Mendon
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Mendon workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mendon | – | B | D | 17 min | $100,524 |
| Killington | 31% | B | A+ | 16 min | $81,250 |
| Rutland | 5% | C+ | B | 20 min | $72,099 |
| Shrewsbury | 2% | B− | B− | 26 min | $91,250 |
| Plymouth | under 2% | — | — | 23 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Plymouth: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Killington. Darker towns draw more of Mendon’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 Mendon: questions
What is the median household income in Mendon?
$100,524 (±$22,729) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $81,203 across Vermont and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mendon?
8.2%, against 10.1% across Vermont and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mendon?
17 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Vermont and 26 nationally. 22% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mendon work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Killington (31%, 7 mi), Rutland (18%, 4 mi), Rutland (5%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mendon walkable?
Mendon is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mendon 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 Mendon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mendon
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.