Windsor County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Windsor 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 Windsor County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Windsor 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 175 hours, about 7.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 3% more time on the road than the Vermont average of 20.5 minutes each way, a difference of 0.5 minutes.

Windsor County holds about 9.0% of Vermont's population but accounts for roughly 9.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Windsor County would save about 70 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,172 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)
Windsor County	21.0 min	42.0 min	175 hrs/yr	$5,429	427
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

Windsor County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 21.0 minutes to get to work in Windsor County. That's 6% 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 17.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Windsor County

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

Commute Mode Trends in Windsor County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Windsor 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	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	86.8%	6.8%	4.4%	0.7%	0.3%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%
2010	87.5%	6.7%	3.6%	0.7%	0.3%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	87.6%	7.1%	3.1%	0.6%	0.2%	0.9%	0.3%	0.1%
2012	87.0%	7.3%	3.6%	0.6%	0.3%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%
2013	87.6%	6.7%	3.8%	0.4%	0.3%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%
2014	87.2%	7.1%	3.9%	0.4%	0.3%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%
2015	86.6%	7.0%	4.4%	0.4%	0.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	87.9%	5.9%	4.6%	0.3%	0.5%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	89.2%	5.3%	4.2%	0.3%	0.4%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	88.4%	5.6%	4.3%	0.4%	0.4%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	88.5%	5.4%	4.1%	0.4%	0.5%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	86.3%	8.3%	3.8%	0.5%	0.3%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	84.0%	11.2%	3.2%	0.6%	0.3%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	81.2%	13.3%	3.5%	0.8%	0.3%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	78.7%	15.3%	3.7%	1.0%	0.5%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	75.5%	17.9%	3.6%	1.2%	1.0%	0.7%	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 2017 at 89.2%. Overall it fell from 86.8% in 2009 to 75.5% in 2024, down 11.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Windsor County: its share of workers rose from 6.8% in 2009 to 17.9% in 2024, up 11.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 12.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.4% to 3.6% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Biking overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 5th most common choice in the 2012 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Windsor County

Rush-Hour RegularsThe highest share of rush-hour departures among Vermont's 14 counties: 58.8% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Windsor County?

The bars show when commuters in Windsor 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		3.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		19.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		14.6%
8:00-8:29 AM		13.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.8%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Windsor County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.4% across Vermont. Early starts are less common than in Vermont: 9.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Vermont: 58.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 54.7% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.1%) 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 Windsor 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 Windsor 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 Windsor 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	Windsor County	Vermont	United States
2009	7:33 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:34 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:32 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:33 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:36 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:33 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:39 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:37 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:36 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:35 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:35 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:34 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:39 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:38 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:35 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Windsor County were on the road by 7:35 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (7:33 AM). Vermont followed the same path, with the typical start moving 2 minutes later. Commuters in Windsor County now leave 3 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Windsor County's commute time compare?

Metric	Windsor County	Vermont	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.0 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	17.9%	16.9%	15.0%
Walked	3.6%	4.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.7%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Windsor County is 21.0 minutes, longer than the 20.5 minutes in Vermont.

0.7% 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

Windsor County, VT Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Windsor County, VT is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 57,919 residents against a local median of 45,878. Windsor County, VT's work from home, at 17.9%, runs 16% above the 15.4% typical of the counties around it.

The counties themselves spread 8.9% on work from home, so Windsor County, VT sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Windsor County, VT has the 3rd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Windsor County, VT	57,919	21.0 min #4/6	17.9% #3/6	7:35 AM #4/6
Sullivan County, NH	43,677	23.5 min	10.2%	7:19 AM
Rutland County, VT	60,423	18.4 min	10.6%	7:32 AM
Orange County, VT	29,751	23.5 min	15.4%	7:18 AM
Windham County, VT	45,878	18.1 min	18.5%	7:49 AM
Washington County, VT	60,005	20.0 min	19.1%	7:37 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Windsor County, Vermont.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 175 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,429 at a typical national wage. That's 3% more than the typical Vermont commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Windsor County, Vermont?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Windsor 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).