Photo: Ascended Dreamer · CC BY-SA 4.0Wolcott has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Only 2% work in Wolcott; the top destination outside it is Morristown (32%, 10 miles). There are 125 jobs in Wolcott for 752 working residents. Wolcott grades C for jobs and income and C for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Wolcott at work: what stands out
Wolcott is a place people come home to
There are 125 jobs based in Wolcott, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Wolcott has about 1,000 people in it, 38% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
One in three of Wolcott works in Morristown
237 working residents, 32%, have their main job in Morristown, 9.8 miles away. That’s 16 times as many as work in Wolcott 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 752 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Wolcott’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Wolcott is better than 31% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Wolcott’s grade up (9.3%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 15% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (3.7%) is left out: Wolcott’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, Wolcott could be anywhere from C− to B−.
Who leaves Wolcott for work, and who comes in
On a workday 735 residents head out to work, 17 work right here, and 108 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Wolcott on a workday afternoon, 38% 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.
Where Wolcott goes to work
Where Wolcott clocks in
32% of workers
18% 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 jobs make up 35% of work in Wolcott
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wolcott, 2013 → 2023: 157 → 125. 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 Wolcott’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Wolcott takes about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wolcott workers work from home, vs 17% across Vermont. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 638 commuters (the 14% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Wolcott
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.
In Wolcott, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Wolcott is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.2% across Vermont, on an EPA index of 5.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 741 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). 10.5% of Wolcott households have no vehicle (Vermont 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Wolcott’s commuters take a bus or train.
Wolcott next to U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300: 3,363rd of 5,760 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
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| 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− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,361 | Stratford WI | 1,619 | $67K | 13.7% | 1.3% | 11% | C |
| 3,362 | Center Township IN | 1,265 | $64K | 12.8% | 1.0% | 0% | C |
| 3,363 | Wolcott VT | 1,672 | $70K | 9.3% | 3.7% | 2% | C |
| 3,364 | Hydesville CA | 1,263 | $97K | 17.0% | 10.7% | 3% | C |
| 3,365 | Berrien Springs MI | 1,767 | $65K | 13.4% | 6.5% | 7% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Wolcott, the top three, the last and three more from Vermont.
Work next door: 10% of Wolcott’s workers
The biggest share goes to Hyde Park (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Wolcott workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wolcott | – | C | C | 27 min | $70,259 |
| Elmore | 3% | — | — | 29 min | — |
| Craftsbury | under 2% | C+ | A− | 27 min | $83,672 |
| Hyde Park | 4% | B+ | C | 26 min | $84,375 |
| Hardwick | 3% | B | A− | 29 min | $92,297 |
| Greensboro | under 2% | — | — | 32 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Elmore and Greensboro: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Wolcott’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 Wolcott: questions
What is the median household income in Wolcott?
$70,259 (±$9,723) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $81,203 across Vermont and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wolcott?
9.3%, against 10.1% across Vermont and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wolcott?
27 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Vermont and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wolcott work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Morristown (32%, 10 mi), Stowe (18%, 14 mi), Hyde Park (4%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Wolcott walkable?
Wolcott is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Wolcott without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wolcott, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wolcott
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.