Photo: Doug Shick from Warren, Vermont, USA · CC BY 2.0Households in Warren have higher incomes than those in 64% of U.S. towns
Working from home is the commute for 36% of workers, against 17% across Vermont. Below the poverty line: 15.7% of residents (Vermont 10.1%). Warren grades C for jobs and income and B for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Warren stands out on work
Many jobs in Warren pay little
46% of the jobs based in Warren pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. Young workers hold many of them: 31% of all the jobs here go to people 29 or younger. The jobs ↓
A lot of Warren works from home
36% of Warren workers work from home, against 17% across Vermont. Time on the road ↓
Commutes from Warren 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, and quicker than any town next door (25 to 34 minutes). 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 664 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Warren earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Warren is better than 26% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Warren’s grade up ($86,905, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 11% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (2.4%) is left out: Warren’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, Warren could be anywhere from D to B+.
Warren is a services town
976 jobs are based in Warren.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Warren, 2013 → 2023: 840 → 976. 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 Warren’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 19 minutes in Warren
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Warren workers work from home, vs 17% across Vermont. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 495 commuters (the 36% 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 a workday changes Warren
On a workday 456 residents head out to work, 208 work right here, and 768 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,300 people are in Warren on a workday afternoon, 16% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.47 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.
15% of working residents work in Waitsfield
Where Warren clocks in
15% of workers
7% of workers
4% 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.
How far it is to work from Warren
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 Warren start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Warren is more walkable than 55% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.3% 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 776 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 45% 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). 0.0% of Warren households have no vehicle (Vermont 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Warren’s commuters take a bus or train.
Warren places 3,637th of 5,509 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 719 | South Hero VT | 1,726 | $127K | 3.5% | 5.9% | 7% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 761 | East Montpelier VT | 2,594 | $93K | 2.1% | 2.6% | 16% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 788 | Dummerston VT | 1,859 | $102K | 4.5% | 1.6% | 5% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,635 | Eddyville KY | 2,306 | $56K | 8.9% | 2.8% | 14% | C |
| 3,636 | Sheldon NY | 2,336 | $71K | 11.8% | 7.3% | 7% | C |
| 3,637 | Warren VT | 1,965 | $87K | 15.7% | 2.4% | 31% | C |
| 3,638 | Lake Ozark MO | 2,247 | $74K | 18.6% | 4.3% | 10% | C |
| 3,639 | Wakefield NE | 1,527 | $57K | 7.5% | 3.9% | 23% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,509 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Warren, the top three, the last and three more from Vermont.
22% of Warren works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Waitsfield (15%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Warren workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warren | – | C | B | 19 min | $86,905 |
| Lincoln | under 2% | B− | C | 30 min | $96,667 |
| Fayston | 7% | B | A− | 29 min | $110,250 |
| Roxbury | under 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Granville | under 2% | — | — | 34 min | — |
| Waitsfield | 15% | B− | A− | 25 min | $84,375 |
Same-state neighbors only. Roxbury and Granville: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Warren’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 Warren: questions
What is the median household income in Warren?
$86,905 (±$16,379) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $81,203 across Vermont and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Warren?
15.7%, against 10.1% across Vermont and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Warren?
19 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Vermont and 26 nationally. 36% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Warren work?
31% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Waitsfield (15%, 6 mi), Fayston (7%, 8 mi), Montpelier (4%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Warren walkable?
Warren is more walkable than 55% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 8.5 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Warren 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 Warren, from the people who make the trip.
More of Warren
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.