Antigo Post Office · Photo: Jeff the quiet · Public domainAntigo has lower household incomes than 92% of U.S. towns
About two in five work in Antigo itself; outside it, Wausau draws the most (5%, 27 miles). Below the poverty line: 19.5% of residents, next to 10.6% across Wisconsin. The two grades for Antigo are D for jobs and income and B+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Antigo at work: what stands out
How Antigo earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Antigo is better than 15% of U.S. towns, #351 of 362 in Wisconsin. Unemployment holds Antigo’s grade up (4.5%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($45,520, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Antigo could be anywhere from D to C.
Where in the region Antigo works
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.
Antigo by day and by night
On a workday 2,159 residents head out to work, 1,448 work right here, and 3,553 people come in from elsewhere.
About 9,500 people are in Antigo on a workday afternoon, 17% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.39 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.
Out of Antigo to work: where people go
Where Antigo clocks in
5% of workers
4% of workers
2% 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 Antigo: what the 5,001 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Antigo, 2013 → 2023: 4,901 → 5,001. 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.
Commuting from Antigo: about 20 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.4 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 3,390 commuters (the 6% 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.
Most of Antigo commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Antigo is more walkable than 69% of U.S. towns, #101 of 362 in Wisconsin. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 7.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,609 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). 10.6% of Antigo households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Antigo’s commuters take a bus or train.
2,740th of 3,049: where Antigo ranks among U.S. towns of 5,600 to 10,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 18 | Fox Point WI | 6,583 | $141K | 2.5% | 0.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Elm Grove WI | 6,354 | $158K | 4.4% | 0.7% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 45 | Waukesha WI | 8,507 | $131K | 3.0% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,738 | Hillcrest CA | 10,511 | $46K | 31.4% | 8.7% | 2% | C− |
| 2,739 | De Queen AR | 6,045 | $53K | 17.1% | 4.8% | 48% | C− |
| 2,740 | Antigo WI | 8,060 | $46K | 19.5% | 4.5% | 40% | D |
| 2,741 | Coloma Township IL | 10,277 | $52K | 22.3% | 5.8% | 12% | D |
| 2,742 | Bonne Terre MO | 6,636 | $46K | 28.3% | 4.5% | 13% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,049 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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.
Antigo and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Rolling (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
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?
$45,520 (±$5,836) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Antigo?
19.5%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Antigo?
20 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Antigo work?
40% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wausau (5%, 27 mi), Antigo (4%, 3 mi), Madison (2%, 142 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Antigo walkable?
Antigo is more walkable than 69% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Antigo without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 11% 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.