Photo: User:Magicpiano · CC BY-SA 4.0Orange has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
Employers in Orange report 21 jobs for 488 working residents. Orange grades C+ for jobs and income and D for walkability. Hardly any work in Orange; the top destination outside it is Barre (18%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Orange, in a few figures
Income, poverty and work: Orange’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Orange is better than 37% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Orange’s grade up (7.6%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 15% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (4.7%) is left out: Orange’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, Orange could be anywhere from C− to B.
Who leaves Orange for work, and who comes in
On a workday 484 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 17 people come in from elsewhere.
About 600 people are in Orange on a workday afternoon, 44% 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 people from Orange work
Where Orange clocks in
12% of workers
10% 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 place that makes things: 48% of Orange’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Orange, 2013 → 2023: 95 → 21. 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 Orange’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Orange spends getting to work: about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Orange workers work from home, vs 17% across Vermont. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 410 commuters (the 14% 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.
Miles to work from Orange
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.
Orange is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Orange is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 0.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.2% across Vermont, on an EPA index of 4.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 474 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). 4.2% of Orange households have no vehicle (Vermont 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Orange’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400, Orange comes 1,487th 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 307 | Bolton VT | 1,277 | $111K | 2.9% | 1.1% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 405 | Cornwall VT | 1,290 | $115K | 0.8% | 7.4% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 523 | West Windsor VT | 1,355 | $109K | 3.7% | 3.4% | 5% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,485 | Coitsville Township OH | 1,234 | $59K | 13.9% | 9.7% | 3% | C+ |
| 1,486 | Asylum Township PA | 1,000 | $73K | 7.7% | 0.4% | 2% | C+ |
| 1,487 | Orange VT | 1,071 | $71K | 7.6% | 4.7% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,488 | Innovation VA | 1,034 | $32K | 11.9% | 14.2% | 3% | C+ |
| 1,489 | Calmar IA | 1,098 | $93K | 12.5% | 0.5% | 4% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 Orange, the top three, the last and three more from Vermont.
Around Orange: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Barre (6%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Orange workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orange | – | C+ | D | 28 min | $71,302 |
| Topsham | under 2% | D | C+ | 35 min | $72,308 |
| Barre | 6% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Groton | under 2% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Washington | 3% | B− | C+ | 31 min | $66,103 |
| Corinth | under 2% | C | B | 35 min | $89,167 |
Same-state neighbors only. Barre: the same community as the city of that name, graded once. Groton: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Orange’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 Orange: questions
What is the median household income in Orange?
$71,302 (±$12,803) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $81,203 across Vermont and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Orange?
7.6%, against 10.1% across Vermont and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Orange?
28 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Vermont and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Orange work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Barre (18%, 8 mi), Berlin (12%, 13 mi), Montpelier (10%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Orange walkable?
Orange is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Orange without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Orange, from the people who make the trip.
More of Orange
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.