Orleans County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Orleans County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Orleans County spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 173 hours, about 7.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% more time on the road than the Vermont average of 20.5 minutes each way, a difference of 0.3 minutes.

Orleans County holds about 4.3% of Vermont's population and accounts for roughly 4.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Orleans County would save about 69 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,146 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)
Orleans County	20.8 min	41.5 min	173 hrs/yr	$5,366	444
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

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On average, it takes 20.8 minutes to get to work in Orleans County. That's 7% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 12.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Orleans County

• Car: 82.7%
• Worked at Home: 12.5%
• Walked: 3.4%
• Other: 0.7%
• Bicycle: 0.5%
• Motorcycle: 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Orleans County: 9.1 times less than the Vermont average (0.1% vs 0.8%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Orleans County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Orleans 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.

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• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Bicycle
• Public Transportation
• Motorcycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	87.5%	6.5%	3.1%	2.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2010	87.3%	6.5%	2.7%	3.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	86.4%	6.8%	2.6%	3.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	86.6%	6.8%	2.7%	3.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2013	86.8%	7.2%	2.5%	3.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	88.3%	7.1%	2.4%	1.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	88.2%	7.2%	2.5%	1.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	88.2%	7.4%	2.9%	1.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	87.7%	7.9%	3.0%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	86.3%	8.1%	3.9%	1.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	86.5%	7.6%	4.1%	1.3%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	88.0%	7.1%	3.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	87.4%	7.6%	3.9%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	85.7%	9.2%	4.0%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	84.1%	10.9%	3.7%	0.5%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	82.7%	12.5%	3.4%	0.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2014 at 88.3%. Overall it fell from 87.5% in 2009 to 82.7% in 2024, down 4.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Orleans County: its share of workers rose from 6.5% in 2009 to 12.5% in 2024, up 6.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Orleans County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Orleans County?

The bars show when commuters in Orleans 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	12:00-4:59 AM Orleans County5.4% Vermont3.9%	5.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Orleans County5.1% Vermont2.7%	5.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Orleans County5.1% Vermont4.3%	5.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Orleans County11.0% Vermont8.0%	11.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Orleans County12.4% Vermont10.9%	12.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Orleans County16.5% Vermont16.4%	16.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Orleans County15.1% Vermont15.5%	15.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Orleans County10.2% Vermont11.8%	10.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Orleans County3.3% Vermont5.6%	3.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Orleans County2.1% Vermont5.7%	2.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Orleans County1.3% Vermont2.7%	1.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Orleans County0.9% Vermont1.4%	0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Orleans County6.2% Vermont6.3%	6.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Orleans County5.4% Vermont4.8%	5.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Orleans County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.4% across Vermont. Early starts are more common than in Vermont: 15.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Vermont's: 54.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 54.7% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.0%) 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 Orleans 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 Orleans 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 Orleans 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.

• Orleans County
• Vermont
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Orleans County	Vermont	United States
2009	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:22 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:22 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:20 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:19 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:17 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:16 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:16 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:19 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:18 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:20 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:22 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:23 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:23 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:20 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Orleans County were on the road by 7:20 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:24 AM). That goes against the trend across Vermont, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Orleans County now leave 18 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Orleans County's commute time compare?

Metric	Orleans County	Vermont	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.8 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	12.5%	16.9%	15.0%
Walked	3.4%	4.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Orleans County is 20.8 minutes, longer than the 20.5 minutes in Vermont.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.8% in Vermont. 3.4% commute by walking, lower than the 4.4% in Vermont.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau