Photo: Mckennagene · CC BY-SA 3.0Households in Antigo earn more than those in 73% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 5.5% of residents, against 10.6% across Wisconsin. The two grades for Antigo are B for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. Working from home is the commute for 4% of workers (Wisconsin 13%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Antigo: the gist
Antigo and Antigo trade workers both ways
Antigo is the top workplace for Antigo residents (35%) and also where the most people who work in Antigo come from (23% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
30% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Antigo makes and builds things
38% of the jobs based in Antigo are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Antigo residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 27%. The jobs ↓
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 638 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Antigo
On income, poverty and job access, Antigo is better than 60% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Antigo’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 18% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (1.1%) is left out: Antigo’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, Antigo could be anywhere from C+ to B+.
35% of working residents work in Antigo
Where Antigo clocks in
35% of workers
4% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Antigo
About 30% 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.
Making and building: 38% of jobs based in Antigo
574 jobs are based in Antigo.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Antigo, 2013 → 2023: 527 → 574. 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 Antigo’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How a workday changes Antigo
On a workday 604 residents head out to work, 34 work right here, and 540 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.90 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
About 16 minutes each way, quicker than most of Wisconsin
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Antigo workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 669 commuters (the 4% 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.
In Antigo, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Antigo is more walkable than 67% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 8.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 6.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 696 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). 2.2% of Antigo households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Antigo’s commuters take a bus or train.
Antigo next to U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900: 1,500th of 5,877 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 26 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
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| 46 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
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| 50 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
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| 1,498 | Brown Township IN | 1,746 | $105K | 5.3% | 8.2% | 1% | B |
| 1,499 | Graham Township IN | 1,585 | $78K | 3.0% | 6.2% | <1% | B |
| 1,500 | Antigo WI | 1,380 | $96K | 5.5% | 1.1% | 5% | B |
| 1,501 | Berry College GA | 1,647 | — | 0.0% | 7.2% | 0% | B |
| 1,502 | Watson LA | 1,357 | $97K | 17.2% | 3.0% | 2% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Antigo, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Next door to Antigo
The biggest share goes to Neva (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Antigo workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antigo | – | B | B+ | 16 min | $95,571 |
| Polar | under 2% | C+ | C | 24 min | $76,458 |
| Neva | 2% | — | — | 21 min | — |
| Ackley | under 2% | — | — | 17 min | — |
| Norwood | under 2% | — | — | 27 min | — |
| Price | under 2% | — | — | 25 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Neva, Ackley, Norwood and Price: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Antigo’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 Antigo: questions
What is the median household income in Antigo?
$95,571 (±$13,012) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Antigo?
5.5%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Antigo?
16 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Antigo work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Antigo (35%, 3 mi), Wausau (4%, 30 mi), Rolling (3%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Antigo walkable?
Antigo is more walkable than 67% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.0 out of 20, and 9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Antigo without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Antigo, from the people who make the trip.
More of Antigo
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.