Rutland County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Rutland 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 Rutland County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Rutland County spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 153 hours, about 6.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 10% less time on the road than the Vermont average of 20.5 minutes each way, a difference of 2.1 minutes.

Rutland County holds about 9.3% of Vermont's population but accounts for roughly 8.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Rutland County would save about 61 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,900 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)
Rutland County	18.4 min	36.8 min	153 hrs/yr	$4,750	428
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

Rutland County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 18.4 minutes to get to work in Rutland County. That's 18% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the top 3 fastest 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 10.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Rutland County

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

Biking is unusually rare in Rutland County: 67.9 times less than the Vermont average (0.0% vs 0.7%).

Commute Mode Trends in Rutland County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Rutland 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	87.1%	6.0%	5.3%	0.4%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%
2010	87.2%	6.0%	5.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	87.3%	6.4%	5.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	87.5%	5.8%	5.4%	0.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	87.2%	5.7%	5.6%	0.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	87.2%	5.8%	5.3%	0.5%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2015	87.3%	5.6%	5.1%	0.6%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%
2016	87.6%	5.1%	5.3%	0.5%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2017	87.8%	5.2%	5.1%	0.4%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%
2018	88.7%	5.2%	4.6%	0.4%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2019	88.7%	5.1%	4.5%	0.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2020	88.6%	6.1%	3.9%	0.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	88.2%	7.4%	3.1%	0.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	88.0%	8.1%	2.8%	0.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	86.4%	9.4%	2.5%	0.7%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	85.2%	10.6%	3.1%	0.6%	0.5%	0.1%	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 2018 at 88.7%. Overall it fell from 87.1% in 2009 to 85.2% 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 Rutland County: its share of workers rose from 6.0% in 2009 to 10.6% in 2024, up 4.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 5.3% to 3.1% of workers (down 2.2 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Rutland County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Rutland County?

The bars show when commuters in Rutland 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		5.8%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		14.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.8%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.4%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Rutland County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.4% across Vermont. Early starts are more common than in Vermont: 13.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Vermont: 52.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 54.7% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.0%) 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 Rutland 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 Rutland 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 Rutland 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	Rutland County	Vermont	United States
2009	7:31 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:32 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:35 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:37 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:39 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:39 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:39 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:37 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:39 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:37 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:34 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:32 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:32 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:28 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:31 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:32 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Rutland County were on the road by 7:32 AM, 1 minute later than in 2009 (7:31 AM). Vermont followed the same path, with the typical start moving 2 minutes later. Commuters in Rutland County now leave 6 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 Rutland County has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Rutland County's commute time compare?

Metric	Rutland County	Vermont	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.4 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	10.6%	16.9%	15.0%
Walked	3.1%	4.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Rutland County is 18.4 minutes, shorter than the 20.5 minutes in Vermont.

0.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.8% in Vermont. 3.1% commute by walking, lower than the 4.4% in Vermont.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Rutland County, VT Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Rutland County, VT is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 60,423 residents against a local median of 45,878. The measure that sets Rutland County, VT apart most is work from home: 10.6%, 40% below the local median of 17.7%.

The counties themselves spread 10.4% on work from home, so Rutland County, VT sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Rutland County, VT has the 5th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Rutland County, VT	60,423	18.4 min #3/6	10.6% #5/6	7:32 AM #2/6
Windsor County, VT	57,919	21.0 min	17.9%	7:35 AM
Addison County, VT	37,599	20.3 min	17.4%	7:35 AM
Washington County, NY	60,519	22.8 min	8.0%	7:20 AM
Bennington County, VT	37,269	16.5 min	17.7%	7:41 AM
Windham County, VT	45,878	18.1 min	18.5%	7:49 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Rutland County, Vermont.

Is commuting expensive in Rutland County, Vermont?

Commuters here spend an estimated 153 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,750 at a typical national wage. That's 10% less than the typical Vermont commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Rutland County, Vermont?

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

How do commute times compare across 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).