With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Angelo works elsewhere
There are 120 jobs in Angelo, and 694 of its residents work somewhere. For jobs and income Angelo is better than 50% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns (C). Hardly any work in Angelo itself; outside it, Sparta draws the most (24%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Angelo, in a few figures
Angelo is a place people come home to
There are 120 jobs based in Angelo, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Angelo has about 1,200 people in it, 33% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Angelo and Sparta trade workers both ways
Sparta is the top workplace for Angelo residents (24%) and also where the most people who work in Angelo come from (14% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 694 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Angelo
The poverty rate holds Angelo’s grade up (5.5%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 29% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (1.7%) is left out: Angelo’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Angelo could be anywhere from C to B+.
Angelo on a workday afternoon
On a workday 692 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 118 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Angelo on a workday afternoon, 33% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Angelo: the destinations
Where Angelo clocks in
24% of workers
10% of workers
9% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Jobs in Angelo: what the 120 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Angelo, 2013 → 2023: 98 → 120. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Angelo’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Angelo, about 18 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Angelo workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 702 commuters (the 13% who work from home are left out). Across Wisconsin: 86% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Miles to work from Angelo
About 29% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Driving is how Angelo gets around
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 5.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 809 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 2.9% of Angelo households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Angelo’s commuters take a bus or train.
Angelo places 2,139th of 5,760 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 38 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 43 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,137 | Masaryktown FL | 1,262 | $61K | 6.5% | 2.7% | 0% | B− |
| 2,138 | Ladd IL | 1,384 | $67K | 6.4% | 2.5% | 2% | B− |
| 2,139 | Angelo WI | 1,737 | $71K | 5.5% | 1.7% | <1% | B− |
| 2,140 | Lincoln Township KS | 1,268 | $75K | 4.0% | 9.6% | 4% | B− |
| 2,141 | Knife Lake Township MN | 1,268 | $101K | 7.6% | 2.7% | 1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Angelo, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Angelo and its neighbors: 26% work next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Angelo workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angelo | – | B− | C | 18 min | $71,250 |
| Sparta | 24% | C+ | A− | 19 min | $64,973 |
| Wells | under 2% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Adrian | under 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Lafayette | 2% | — | — | 21 min | — |
| Sparta | under 2% | A− | D | 18 min | $94,226 |
Same-state neighbors only. Wells and Adrian: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Lafayette: the same community as the town of that name, graded once. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Sparta. Darker towns draw more of Angelo’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Angelo: questions
What is the median household income in Angelo?
$71,250 (±$27,713) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Angelo?
5.5%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Angelo?
18 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Angelo work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sparta (24%, 4 mi), La Crosse (10%, 25 mi), Tomah (9%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Angelo walkable?
Angelo is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.1 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Angelo without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Angelo, from the people who make the trip.
More of Angelo
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.