Lamoille County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Lamoille County, Vermont: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Lamoille County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lamoille County spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 182 hours, about 7.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 6% more time on the road than the Vermont average of 20.5 minutes each way, a difference of 1.3 minutes.

Lamoille County holds about 4.0% of Vermont's population but accounts for roughly 4.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Lamoille County would save about 73 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,254 at the same national wage assumption used above.

Area	One-Way Commute	Daily Round-Trip	Yearly Time Spent	Estimated Yearly Cost	Local Road Traffic (VPD)
Lamoille County	21.8 min	43.6 min	182 hrs/yr	$5,634	820
Vermont	20.5 min	41.0 min	171 hrs/yr	$5,295	718
United States	22.4 min	44.8 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,790	1,355

The estimated yearly cost applies a single national rule of thumb (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics average hourly earnings), not a measurement of wages in this area - treat it as a rough estimate, not a paycheck figure. Local road traffic counts, vehicles per day on non-highway roads, come from proprietary Ticon and TrafficZoom data.

Commute Time Map: Vermont Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Vermont

Bennington County (16.5 min)
Windham County (18.1 min)
Rutland County (18.4 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Vermont

Grand Isle County (32.0 min)
Franklin County (26.5 min)
Essex County (23.5 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Lamoille County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 21.8 minutes to get to work in Lamoille County. That's 3% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 5 slowest counties in Vermont

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 12.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lamoille County

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Lamoille County, versus 0.0% in Vermont.

Biking is unusually rare in Lamoille County: 26.1 times less than the Vermont average (0.0% vs 0.7%).

Commute Mode Trends in Lamoille County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lamoille County get to work, as a share of all workers aged 16 and over, across 16 U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) releases from 2009 to 2024. Each release is a 5-year estimate: the 2024 figures cover surveys taken from 2020 to 2024. Because neighboring releases share most of their survey years, the lines move gradually, and a sudden change such as the rise of remote work in 2020 spreads across several releases. Hover over or tap a line to highlight it, and use the legend to show or hide a mode. Driving starts hidden so the smaller modes stay readable.

Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	84.8%	7.6%	6.2%	0.7%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	86.3%	8.1%	4.3%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	86.1%	8.1%	4.2%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	85.7%	8.1%	4.4%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2013	87.1%	7.1%	4.6%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2014	87.0%	7.1%	4.2%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2015	87.3%	5.8%	4.8%	1.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	87.6%	6.5%	3.8%	1.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	87.4%	6.9%	4.1%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	86.6%	8.0%	3.2%	1.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	87.7%	6.4%	3.5%	1.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	87.3%	7.0%	4.2%	0.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	85.8%	8.3%	4.0%	1.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	84.9%	9.9%	3.1%	1.2%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2023	84.4%	10.8%	3.1%	1.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	82.9%	12.3%	3.6%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2019 at 87.7%. Overall it fell from 84.8% in 2009 to 82.9% in 2024, down 1.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Lamoille County: its share of workers rose from 7.6% in 2009 to 12.3% in 2024, up 4.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 6.2% to 3.6% of workers (down 2.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Lamoille County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lamoille County?

The bars show when commuters in Lamoille County leave home for work, as a share of everyone who commutes (people who work from home are not counted), from the 2024 ACS 5-year estimates. The thin violet marks show Vermont for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM		4.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.2%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.3%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		16.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.4%

Lamoille County Vermont Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Lamoille County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.4% across Vermont. Early starts are about as common as in Vermont: 11.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Vermont's: 54.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 54.7% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.3%) leave at 9 AM or later, which usually points to shift work, flexible hours or part-time jobs.

When people leave matters as much as how far they go. Rush-hour traffic shrinks how much ground a 20-minute trip covers, so a trade area drawn as a simple circle often takes in neighborhoods that customers or staff would never drive from and misses others that are an easy trip. A drive-time zone, also called an isochrone, outlines every place within a set number of minutes of an address, which makes it the more honest way to size a store's catchment, a hiring area or the commute from a new home.

See it for yourself on the interactive map: click any spot in Lamoille County, pick a 5, 10, 15 or 30-minute drive and see the local demographics of the people who live within that exact drive time.

Is Lamoille County Waking Up Earlier? Typical Departure Time, 2009-2024

Each line follows the typical (median) departure time: the moment by which half of commuters have already left home. Higher on the chart means a later start. Setting Lamoille County next to Vermont and the U.S. shows whether local mornings are drifting earlier or later than everyone else's. The figures span 16 ACS 5-year releases, so changes build up gradually rather than jumping from one year to the next.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Lamoille County	Vermont	United States
2009	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:27 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:27 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:29 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:28 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:30 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:30 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:30 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:31 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:31 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:30 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:30 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lamoille County were on the road by 7:30 AM, 1 minute later than in 2009 (7:29 AM). Vermont followed the same path, with the typical start moving 2 minutes later. Commuters in Lamoille County now leave 8 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Lamoille County has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Lamoille County's commute time compare?

Metric	Lamoille County	Vermont	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.8 min	20.5 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	12.3%	16.9%	15.0%
Walked	3.6%	4.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Lamoille County is 21.8 minutes, longer than the 20.5 minutes in Vermont.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.8% in Vermont. 3.6% commute by walking, lower than the 4.4% in Vermont.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Lamoille County, VT Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Lamoille County, VT is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 26,137 residents against a local median of 50,633. Where Lamoille County, VT breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 18% below the local median of 15.1% at 12.3%.

The counties themselves spread 7.4% on work from home, so Lamoille County, VT sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Lamoille County, VT has the 6th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Lamoille County, VT	26,137	21.8 min #5/6	12.3% #6/6	7:30 AM #4/6
Washington County, VT	60,005	20.0 min	19.1%	7:37 AM
Franklin County, VT	50,633	26.5 min	14.3%	7:16 AM
Orleans County, VT	27,611	20.8 min	12.5%	7:20 AM
Chittenden County, VT	169,680	19.0 min	19.8%	7:54 AM
Caledonia County, VT	30,464	21.3 min	15.1%	7:19 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Lamoille County, Vermont.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Lamoille County, Vermont?

Commuters here spend an estimated 182 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,634 at a typical national wage. That's 6% more than the typical Vermont commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Lamoille County, Vermont?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Lamoille County, Vermont. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in Vermont?

Among counties in Vermont, the shortest average commutes are in Bennington County (16.5 min), Windham County (18.1 min), Rutland County (18.4 min). The longest are in Grand Isle County (32.0 min), Franklin County (26.5 min), Essex County (23.5 min).