Photo: Ascended Dreamer · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Troy commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
Troy grades B− for jobs and income and B for walkability. There are 225 jobs in Troy, and 715 of its residents work somewhere. Working from home is the commute for 8% of workers; Vermont has 17%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Income, poverty and work: Troy’s grade explained
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Troy is better than 50% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Troy’s grade up (2.7%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 3% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Troy could be anywhere from C to B+.
Troy quiets down on a workday
On a workday 679 residents head out to work, 36 work right here, and 189 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Troy on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
22% of working residents work in Newport
Where Troy clocks in
17% 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.
Goods, not services: 28% of the jobs in Troy
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Troy, 2013 → 2023: 277 → 225. 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 Troy’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Troy: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Troy workers work from home, vs 17% across Vermont. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 976 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 Troy goes to work
About 17% 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.
Most of Troy commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Troy is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 11.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.2% across Vermont, on an EPA index of 5.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,059 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). 1.1% of Troy households have no vehicle (Vermont 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Troy’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Troy is 2,144th of 5,760 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 669 | South Hero VT | 1,726 | $127K | 3.5% | 5.9% | 7% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 737 | Dummerston VT | 1,859 | $102K | 4.5% | 1.6% | 5% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 756 | Bolton VT | 1,277 | $111K | 2.9% | 1.1% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,142 | Martinsburg NY | 1,318 | $85K | 5.2% | 1.8% | 3% | B− |
| 2,143 | Crane Township OH | 1,248 | $76K | 9.1% | 1.6% | 1% | B− |
| 2,144 | Troy VT | 1,703 | $88K | 8.6% | 2.7% | 5% | B− |
| 2,145 | Helena West Side MT | 1,417 | $67K | 5.9% | 0.3% | 8% | B− |
| 2,146 | Parchment MI | 1,887 | $73K | 6.6% | 8.1% | 4% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Troy, the top three, the last and three more from Vermont.
The towns next door employ 23% of Troy
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Jay. Darker towns draw more of Troy’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 Troy: questions
What is the median household income in Troy?
$87,938 (±$11,397) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $81,203 across Vermont and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Troy?
8.6%, against 10.1% across Vermont and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Troy?
24 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Vermont and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Troy work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Newport (22%, 8 mi), Jay (17%, 6 mi), Derby (7%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Troy walkable?
Troy is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.0 out of 20, and 11% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Troy without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Troy, from the people who make the trip.
More of Troy
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.