Photo: Ascended Dreamer · CC BY 4.0Where Orleans earns its living
For 8% of workers, the job is at home (Vermont 17%). About one in ten work in Orleans itself; outside it, Barton draws the most (22%, 4 miles). Commuters spend 31 minutes getting to work on average, where Vermont has 24 and the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Orleans and work: the main findings
Orleans and Barton trade workers both ways
Barton is the top workplace for Orleans residents (22%) and also where the most people who work in Orleans come from (24% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Orleans is where the jobs are
Orleans has 564 jobs, 1.7 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Orleans makes and builds things
49% of the jobs based in Orleans are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Orleans residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 26%. 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 338 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Orleans’s workers come from
Where Orleans clocks in
22% of workers
7% 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.
In and out of Orleans on a workday
On a workday 301 residents head out to work, 37 work right here, and 527 people come in from elsewhere.
About 990 people are in Orleans on a workday afternoon, 30% more than live here.
1.7 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
Making and building: 49% of jobs based in Orleans
564 jobs are based in Orleans.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Orleans, 2013 → 2023: 563 → 564. 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 Orleans’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Orleans, about 31 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Orleans workers work from home, vs 17% across Vermont. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 367 commuters (the 8% 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.
How far it is to work from Orleans
About 20% 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 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 Orleans: questions
What is the median household income in Orleans?
$57,159 (±$9,820) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $81,203 across Vermont and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Orleans?
8.2%, against 10.1% across Vermont and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Orleans?
31 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Vermont and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Orleans work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Barton (22%, 4 mi), Newport (14%, 9 mi), Derby (7%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Orleans without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 16% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Orleans, from the people who make the trip.
More of Orleans
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.