Photo: Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0Salisbury has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Salisbury has 169 jobs for 641 working residents. Jobs and income earn Salisbury B; getting around on foot earns it B. 6% of workers work from home, where Vermont as a whole has 17%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Salisbury at work: what stands out
A lot of Salisbury works one town over
35% of working residents work in a town that borders Salisbury: Middlebury (32%) and Leicester (3%). Next door ↓
Salisbury is a place people come home to
There are 169 jobs based in Salisbury, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Salisbury has about 790 people in it, 37% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Salisbury are quick
The average trip to work takes 19 minutes, against 24 across Vermont. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Vermont worker. Time on the road ↓
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 641 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Salisbury
On income, poverty and job access, Salisbury is better than 64% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Salisbury’s grade up (4.6%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 18% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (6.0%) is left out: Salisbury’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, Salisbury could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
Salisbury by day and by night
On a workday 607 residents head out to work, 34 work right here, and 135 people come in from elsewhere.
About 790 people are in Salisbury on a workday afternoon, 37% 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.
Time on the road from Salisbury: about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Salisbury workers work from home, vs 17% across Vermont. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 591 commuters (the 6% 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.
32% of working residents work in Middlebury
Where Salisbury clocks in
32% of workers
5% 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.
Goods, not services: 38% of the jobs in Salisbury
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Salisbury, 2013 → 2023: 194 → 169. 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 Salisbury’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many miles Salisbury commutes
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.
Few in Salisbury walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Salisbury is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.2% across Vermont, on an EPA index of 6.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 629 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 1.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 62% 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). 3.0% of Salisbury households have no vehicle (Vermont 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Salisbury’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700, Salisbury ranks 1,034th of 4,866 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 529 | Bolton VT | 1,277 | $111K | 2.9% | 1.1% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 679 | Cornwall VT | 1,290 | $115K | 0.8% | 7.4% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 873 | West Windsor VT | 1,355 | $109K | 3.7% | 3.4% | 5% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,032 | Harrisville NH | 1,000 | $103K | 3.6% | 3.0% | 6% | B |
| 1,033 | Monroe Township OH | 1,622 | $87K | 4.0% | 0.0% | 4% | B |
| 1,034 | Salisbury VT | 1,262 | $100K | 4.6% | 6.0% | 5% | B |
| 1,035 | Red Lake AZ | 1,676 | $101K | 0.0% | 3.0% | 2% | B |
| 1,036 | Wilson-Conococheague MD | 1,663 | $64K | 18.0% | 0.0% | 2% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Salisbury, the top three, the last and three more from Vermont.
The towns next door employ 35% of Salisbury
The biggest share goes to Middlebury (32%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Salisbury workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salisbury | – | B | B | 19 min | $99,688 |
| Cornwall | under 3% | B+ | D | 24 min | $114,583 |
| Whiting | under 3% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Ripton | under 3% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Leicester | 3% | C | C+ | 28 min | $70,417 |
| Middlebury | 32% | C+ | A+ | 16 min | $86,169 |
| Goshen | under 3% | — | — | 21 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Whiting, Ripton and Goshen: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Salisbury’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 Salisbury: questions
What is the median household income in Salisbury?
$99,688 (±$21,381) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $81,203 across Vermont and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Salisbury?
4.6%, against 10.1% across Vermont and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Salisbury?
19 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Vermont and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Salisbury work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Middlebury (32%, 5 mi), Brandon (5%, 8 mi), Rutland (5%, 23 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Salisbury walkable?
Salisbury is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Salisbury without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Salisbury, from the people who make the trip.
More of Salisbury
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.