Brown Covered Bridge · Photo: Doug Kerr · CC BY-SA 2.0With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Shrewsbury works elsewhere
146 jobs are based in Shrewsbury for 531 working residents. Shrewsbury grades B− for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Only 2% work in Shrewsbury; the top destination outside it is Killington (29%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury is a place people come home to
There are 146 jobs based in Shrewsbury, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Shrewsbury has about 710 people in it, 35% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
29% of Shrewsbury works in Killington
154 working residents, 29%, have their main job in Killington, 10 miles away. That’s 15 times as many as work in Shrewsbury itself. The commute map ↓
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 531 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Shrewsbury’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Shrewsbury is better than 50% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Shrewsbury’s grade up ($91,250, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 14% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (2.3%) is left out: Shrewsbury’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, Shrewsbury could be anywhere from C− to B+.
Shrewsbury on a workday afternoon
On a workday 518 residents head out to work, 13 work right here, and 133 people come in from elsewhere.
About 710 people are in Shrewsbury on a workday afternoon, 35% 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.
Commuting out of Shrewsbury: the destinations
Where Shrewsbury clocks in
29% 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.
What Shrewsbury’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Shrewsbury, 2013 → 2023: 178 → 146. 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 Shrewsbury’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Shrewsbury’s commute takes about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Shrewsbury workers work from home, vs 17% across Vermont. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 478 commuters (the 16% 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.
Where in the region Shrewsbury works
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.
Driving is how Shrewsbury gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Shrewsbury is more walkable than 48% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.2% across Vermont, on an EPA index of 6.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 567 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 0.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 47% 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). 0.5% of Shrewsbury households have no vehicle (Vermont 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Shrewsbury’s commuters take a bus or train.
1,230th of 3,771: where Shrewsbury ranks among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,228 | Jefferson Township IN | 1,353 | $80K | 11.9% | 5.5% | 3% | B− |
| 1,229 | Shannon Township KS | 1,124 | $98K | 10.7% | 4.6% | 2% | B− |
| 1,230 | Shrewsbury VT | 1,092 | $91K | 7.0% | 2.3% | 2% | B− |
| 1,231 | Masaryktown FL | 1,262 | $61K | 6.5% | 2.7% | 0% | B− |
| 1,232 | Highpoint OH | 1,132 | $47K | 9.5% | 10.5% | 0% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Shrewsbury, the top three, the last and three more from Vermont.
Shrewsbury and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Mendon (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Shrewsbury workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shrewsbury | – | B− | B− | 26 min | $91,250 |
| Mount Holly | under 2% | C | C− | 27 min | $78,015 |
| Wallingford | under 2% | C | C+ | 25 min | $80,230 |
| Plymouth | under 2% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Clarendon | 2% | C+ | C | 16 min | $59,609 |
| Mendon | 4% | B | D | 17 min | $100,524 |
Same-state neighbors only. Plymouth: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Shrewsbury’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 Shrewsbury: questions
What is the median household income in Shrewsbury?
$91,250 (±$23,153) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $81,203 across Vermont and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Shrewsbury?
7.0%, against 10.1% across Vermont and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Shrewsbury?
26 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Vermont and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Shrewsbury work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Killington (29%, 10 mi), Rutland (21%, 8 mi), Rutland (7%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Shrewsbury walkable?
Shrewsbury is more walkable than 48% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Shrewsbury without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Shrewsbury, from the people who make the trip.
More of Shrewsbury
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.