Photo: Mark Barry from Md, Vt, Ny. · CC BY 2.0Bennington draws more than half of North Bennington’s working residents
Working residents average 18 minutes each way, where Vermont has 24 and the U.S. 26. Jobs and income earn North Bennington C+; getting around on foot earns it A+. Only 3% work in North Bennington itself; outside it, Bennington draws the most (57%, 3 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in North Bennington
More than half of North Bennington works in Bennington
342 working residents, 57%, have their main job in Bennington, 2.8 miles away. That’s 19 times as many as work in North Bennington itself. The commute map ↓
Most North Bennington residents work close to home
63% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
Fewer jobs are based in North Bennington than ten years ago
Jobs counted in North Bennington fell from 781 in 2013 to 490 in 2023, −37%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. 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 597 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How North Bennington earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, North Bennington is better than 42% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds North Bennington’s grade up (7.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 28% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (7.0%) is left out: North Bennington’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, North Bennington could be anywhere from C− to B.
Where North Bennington goes to work
Where North Bennington clocks in
57% of workers
4% of workers
4% 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.
Half of North Bennington commutes less than 4 miles
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.
Making and building: 28% of jobs based in North Bennington
490 jobs are based in North Bennington.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in North Bennington, 2013 → 2023: 781 → 490. 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 North Bennington’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A workday in North Bennington: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 581 residents head out to work, 16 work right here, and 474 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 (0.82 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.
Each way, about 18 minutes from North Bennington
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of North Bennington workers work from home, vs 17% across Vermont. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 470 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: North Bennington
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, North Bennington is among the most walkable U.S. towns. Both inputs place North Bennington 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 568 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 5.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 86% 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). 12.2% of North Bennington households have no vehicle (Vermont 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of North Bennington’s commuters take a bus or train.
North Bennington next to U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300: 2,666th of 5,760 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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| 669 | South Hero VT | 1,726 | $127K | 3.5% | 5.9% | 7% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 737 | Dummerston VT | 1,859 | $102K | 4.5% | 1.6% | 5% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 756 | Bolton VT | 1,277 | $111K | 2.9% | 1.1% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,664 | Preston TX | 1,747 | $65K | 6.7% | 11.6% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,665 | Fountain Green UT | 1,333 | $73K | 5.3% | 4.2% | 5% | C+ |
| 2,666 | North Bennington VT | 1,688 | $69K | 7.4% | 7.0% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,667 | Burnside Township MI | 1,917 | $76K | 6.4% | 2.3% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,668 | Brown Township OH | 2,029 | $70K | 14.4% | 2.9% | 6% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | 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 North Bennington, the top three, the last and three more from Vermont.
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 North Bennington: questions
What is the median household income in North Bennington?
$68,571 (±$9,752) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $81,203 across Vermont and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in North Bennington?
7.4%, against 10.1% across Vermont and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from North Bennington?
18 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Vermont and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in North Bennington work?
3% work in town.
Is North Bennington walkable?
North Bennington is among the most walkable U.S. towns (Walkability A+): an EPA walkability index of 13.7 out of 20, and 25% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around North Bennington without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from North Bennington, from the people who make the trip.
More of North Bennington
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.