Photo: Ascended Dreamer · CC BY 4.0With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Ryegate works elsewhere
Home is the office for 8% of workers, where Vermont as a whole has 17%. 135 jobs are based in Ryegate for 411 working residents. Ryegate grades D for jobs and income and C− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Ryegate, in brief
Ryegate’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Ryegate is better than 14% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Ryegate’s grade up ($66,484, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 6% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (1.6%) is left out: Ryegate’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, Ryegate could be anywhere from D− to C+.
12% of working residents work in Haverhill
Where Ryegate clocks in
12% of workers
9% 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.
Ryegate by day and by night
On a workday 395 residents head out to work, 16 work right here, and 119 people come in from elsewhere.
About 860 people are in Ryegate on a workday afternoon, 24% 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.
Goods jobs make up 36% of work in Ryegate
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ryegate, 2013 → 2023: 110 → 135. 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 Ryegate’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Ryegate 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 Ryegate workers work from home, vs 17% across Vermont. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 450 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.
The distance from Ryegate to work
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.
Most trips from Ryegate start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Ryegate is more walkable than 23% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.2% 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 490 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). 4.0% of Ryegate households have no vehicle (Vermont 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Ryegate’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ryegate is 2,841st of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 388 | Bolton VT | 1,277 | $111K | 2.9% | 1.1% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 505 | Cornwall VT | 1,290 | $115K | 0.8% | 7.4% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 654 | West Windsor VT | 1,355 | $109K | 3.7% | 3.4% | 5% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,839 | Hurt VA | 1,234 | $59K | 16.7% | 2.5% | 3% | D |
| 2,840 | Huston Township PA | 1,232 | $61K | 14.7% | 1.7% | 2% | D |
| 2,841 | Ryegate VT | 1,131 | $66K | 14.5% | 1.6% | 4% | D |
| 2,842 | Snead AL | 1,052 | $49K | 14.8% | 1.3% | 6% | D |
| 2,843 | Nickerson KS | 1,051 | $49K | 12.9% | 2.1% | 3% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Ryegate, the top three, the last and three more from Vermont.
Work in the towns next to Ryegate
The biggest share goes to Newbury (9%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Ryegate workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ryegate | – | D | C− | 28 min | $66,484 |
| Groton | under 3% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Barnet | under 3% | C | C− | 28 min | $67,386 |
| Wells River | under 3% | — | — | 34 min | — |
| Newbury | 9% | C | B | 30 min | $62,316 |
Same-state neighbors only. Groton and Wells River: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Ryegate’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 Ryegate: questions
What is the median household income in Ryegate?
$66,484 (±$14,558) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $81,203 across Vermont and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ryegate?
14.5%, against 10.1% across Vermont and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ryegate?
28 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Vermont and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ryegate work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Haverhill (12%, 11 mi), Newbury (9%, 7 mi), St. Johnsbury (9%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Ryegate walkable?
Ryegate is more walkable than 23% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.2 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ryegate without a car?
<1% 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 Ryegate, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ryegate
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.