Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 3.0Work and commuting in Baileys Harbor
Only 5% stay in Baileys Harbor for work; outside it, Sturgeon Bay is the main destination (19%, 24 miles). Jobs and income earn Baileys Harbor C; getting around on foot earns it B+. The trip to work takes 15 minutes on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Baileys Harbor
Baileys Harbor and Sturgeon Bay trade workers both ways
Sturgeon Bay is the top workplace for Baileys Harbor residents (19%) and also where the most people who work in Baileys Harbor come from (23% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Baileys Harbor are quick
The average trip to work takes 15 minutes, against 22 across Wisconsin. That’s about 54 hours a year less on the road than the typical Wisconsin worker. Time on the road ↓
Baileys Harbor’s workforce skews older
38% of Baileys Harbor’s working residents are 55 or older. 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 436 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Baileys Harbor
On income, poverty and job access, Baileys Harbor is better than 35% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Baileys Harbor’s grade up (7.1%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down.
Unemployment (0.3%) is left out: Baileys Harbor’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, Baileys Harbor could be anywhere from C− to B.
Where Baileys Harbor’s working residents head each day
Where Baileys Harbor clocks in
19% of workers
11% 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.
A commute of about 15 minutes in Baileys Harbor
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Baileys Harbor workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 639 commuters (the 10% 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.
Goods, not services: 31% of the jobs in Baileys Harbor
300 jobs are based in Baileys Harbor.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Baileys Harbor, 2013 → 2023: 206 → 300. 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 Baileys Harbor’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A workday in Baileys Harbor: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 413 residents head out to work, 23 work right here, and 277 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Baileys Harbor on a workday afternoon, 11% fewer than live here.
0.69 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
How far Baileys Harbor goes to work
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.
In Baileys Harbor, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Baileys Harbor is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 13.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 5.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 707 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). 1.8% of Baileys Harbor households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Baileys Harbor’s commuters take a bus or train.
Baileys Harbor next to U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700: 2,456th of 4,866 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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| 22 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
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| 42 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,454 | Scipio NY | 1,516 | $77K | 10.6% | 3.7% | 10% | C |
| 2,455 | Richmond Township MI | 1,697 | $71K | 9.4% | 2.5% | 4% | C |
| 2,456 | Baileys Harbor WI | 1,258 | $74K | 7.1% | 0.3% | 5% | C |
| 2,457 | Skidmore TX | 1,183 | $37K | 1.1% | 5.1% | 1% | C |
| 2,458 | Osceola Mills PA | 1,007 | $68K | 10.1% | 7.1% | 1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Baileys Harbor, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Baileys Harbor and its neighbors: 17% work next door
The biggest share goes to Gibraltar (7%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Baileys Harbor workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baileys Harbor | – | C | B+ | 15 min | $73,514 |
| Liberty Grove | 3% | B− | B+ | 15 min | $79,500 |
| Gibraltar | 7% | B | B− | 16 min | $103,984 |
| Jacksonport | under 3% | — | — | 21 min | — |
| Egg Harbor | 7% | C | C+ | 21 min | $74,844 |
Same-state neighbors only. Jacksonport: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Baileys Harbor’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 Baileys Harbor: questions
What is the median household income in Baileys Harbor?
$73,514 (±$11,699) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Baileys Harbor?
7.1%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Baileys Harbor?
15 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Baileys Harbor work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sturgeon Bay (19%, 24 mi), Egg Harbor (11%, 13 mi), Sister Bay (9%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Baileys Harbor walkable?
Baileys Harbor is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 5.9 out of 20, and 14% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Baileys Harbor without a car?
<1% 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 Baileys Harbor, from the people who make the trip.
More of Baileys Harbor
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.