Giroux Furniture Company Building · Photo: Mfwills · CC BY-SA 3.0At 1.8%, unemployment in St. Albans is lower than in 87% of U.S. towns
The two grades for St. Albans are C+ for jobs and income and A for walkability. Measured by household income, St. Albans is behind 77% of U.S. towns. About one in five stay in St. Albans for work; outside it, St. Albans is the main destination (16%, 3 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in St. Albans, in brief
The figures behind St. Albans’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, St. Albans is better than 38% of U.S. towns, #49 of 71 in Vermont. Unemployment holds St. Albans’ grade up; the poverty rate pulls it down (19.5%, U.S. 12.5%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, St. Albans could be anywhere from C− to B−.
Commuting out of St. Albans: the destinations
Where St. Albans clocks in
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.
Who commutes out of St. Albans, and who commutes in
On a workday 2,579 residents head out to work, 686 work right here, and 3,680 people come in from elsewhere.
About 8,000 people are in St. Albans on a workday afternoon, 16% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.34 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
69% of the jobs in St. Albans pay over $3,333 a month
4,366 jobs are based in St. Albans.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in St. Albans, 2013 → 2023: 4,200 → 4,366. 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 St. Albans’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from St. Albans takes about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of St. Albans workers work from home, vs 17% across Vermont. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,769 commuters (the 12% 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.
Half of St. Albans commutes less than 17 miles
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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: St. Albans
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, St. Albans is more walkable than 93% of U.S. towns, #10 of 71 in Vermont. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 5.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 7.2% across Vermont.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,151 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 59% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 1.2 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 60% 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). 17.6% of St. Albans households have no vehicle (Vermont 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of St. Albans’ commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, St. Albans is 2,154th of 3,167 U.S. towns of 4,900 to 9,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 341 | Jericho VT | 5,056 | $117K | 0.9% | 1.2% | 9% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 745 | Fairfax VT | 5,455 | $129K | 5.1% | 2.1% | 9% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,166 | Shelburne VT | 8,133 | $116K | 8.4% | 3.8% | 15% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,152 | Strasburg VA | 7,380 | $62K | 7.5% | 5.5% | 9% | C+ |
| 2,153 | Brookfield Township OH | 8,348 | $53K | 15.1% | 3.9% | 9% | C+ |
| 2,154 | St. Albans VT | 6,939 | $58K | 19.5% | 1.8% | 21% | C+ |
| 2,155 | Greene NY | 5,021 | $73K | 10.6% | 4.5% | 23% | C+ |
| 2,156 | Midway City CA | 7,999 | $67K | 18.0% | 6.0% | 1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,167 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 St. Albans, the top three, the last and three more from Vermont.
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 St. Albans: questions
What is the median household income in St. Albans?
$57,980 (±$7,287) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $81,203 across Vermont and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in St. Albans?
19.5%, against 10.1% across Vermont and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from St. Albans?
23 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Vermont and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in St. Albans work?
21% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are St. Albans (16%, 3 mi), Burlington (10%, 23 mi), South Burlington (9%, 26 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is St. Albans walkable?
St. Albans is more walkable than 93% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 14.2 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around St. Albans without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 18% of households have no car. 59% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from St. Albans, from the people who make the trip.
More of St. Albans
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.