Orange County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Orange 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 Orange County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Orange County spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 196 hours, about 8.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 14% more time on the road than the Vermont average of 20.5 minutes each way, a difference of 3.0 minutes.

Orange County holds about 4.6% of Vermont's population but accounts for roughly 5.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Orange County would save about 78 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,425 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)
Orange County	23.5 min	46.9 min	196 hrs/yr	$6,061	871
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

Orange County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 23.5 minutes to get to work in Orange County. That's 5% longer 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 15.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Orange County

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

Biking is unusually rare in Orange County: 3.4 times less than the Vermont average (0.2% vs 0.7%).

Commute Mode Trends in Orange County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Orange 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	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	87.0%	7.0%	4.6%	0.8%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	86.4%	8.0%	4.1%	0.9%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	86.5%	7.8%	3.5%	1.4%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	85.8%	7.4%	4.5%	1.2%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	86.0%	7.2%	4.7%	0.8%	0.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	86.5%	7.4%	4.1%	0.9%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	86.7%	7.2%	4.2%	0.8%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	85.6%	7.9%	4.5%	1.0%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	86.1%	8.3%	3.8%	1.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	86.2%	8.2%	3.6%	1.2%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	86.7%	7.3%	3.8%	1.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	84.5%	9.6%	4.0%	1.2%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	83.8%	11.1%	3.7%	0.8%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	82.5%	12.8%	3.1%	1.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	81.8%	14.1%	3.0%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	80.0%	15.4%	3.2%	0.8%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 87.0% in 2009 to 80.0% in 2024, down 7.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Orange County: its share of workers rose from 7.0% in 2009 to 15.4% in 2024, up 8.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.6% to 3.2% of workers (down 1.4 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Orange County

Early BirdThe 2nd-earliest start among Vermont's 14 counties: half of commuters are on the road by 7:18 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Orange County?

The bars show when commuters in Orange 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		5.9%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		13.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		20.3%
7:30-7:59 AM		14.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.0%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		2.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Orange County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 20.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.4% across Vermont. Early starts are more common than in Vermont: 13.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Vermont: 57.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 54.7% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.6%) 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 Orange 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 Orange 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 Orange 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	Orange County	Vermont	United States
2009	7:20 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:18 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:16 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:18 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:21 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:21 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:23 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:24 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:22 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:21 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:20 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:17 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:14 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:13 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:16 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:19 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Orange County were on the road by 7:19 AM, 1 minute earlier than in 2009 (7:20 AM). That goes against the trend across Vermont, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Orange County now leave 19 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Orange County's commute time compare?

Metric	Orange County	Vermont	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.5 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	15.4%	16.9%	15.0%
Walked	3.2%	4.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Orange County is 23.5 minutes, longer than the 20.5 minutes in Vermont.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.8% in Vermont. 3.2% commute by walking, lower than the 4.4% in Vermont.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Orange County, VT Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Orange County, VT is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 29,751 residents against a local median of 57,919. Nothing separates Orange County, VT sharply from the counties around it. Each measure below lands within 15% of the local median, close enough that the differences are within what survey sampling alone would produce.

The largest of those small differences is one-way commute, 12% above the local median at 23.5 min against 21.0 min. Orange County, VT has the 6th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Orange County, VT	29,751	23.5 min #6/6	15.4% #4/6	7:18 AM #1/6
Washington County, VT	60,005	20.0 min	19.1%	7:37 AM
Windsor County, VT	57,919	21.0 min	17.9%	7:35 AM
Caledonia County, VT	30,464	21.3 min	15.1%	7:19 AM
Grafton County, NH	92,112	17.5 min	17.2%	7:37 AM
Lamoille County, VT	26,137	21.8 min	12.3%	7:30 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Orange County, Vermont.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Orange County, Vermont?

Commuters here spend an estimated 196 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,061 at a typical national wage. That's 14% more than the typical Vermont commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Orange County, Vermont?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Orange 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.

Which counties in Vermont have the fastest and slowest commutes?

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).