Cassidy Farmhouse · Photo: TheCatalyst31 · CC0Barneveld has 0.5 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
There are 383 jobs in Barneveld for 697 working residents. For jobs and income Barneveld is better than 85% of U.S. towns (A−); for walkability it is more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns (B−). Only 5% stay in Barneveld for work; outside it, Madison is the main destination (25%, 24 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Barneveld: the gist
Barneveld’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Barneveld is Madison, 24 miles away as the crow flies. 25% of working residents (171) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Barneveld makes and builds things
44% of the jobs based in Barneveld are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Barneveld residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 23%. 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 697 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Barneveld’s Jobs & income grade comes from
Household income is its strongest input ($113,542, U.S. $80,734); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 53% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (2.8%) is left out: Barneveld’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, Barneveld could be anywhere from A− to A.
Near or far: the trip to work from Barneveld
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.
Goods, not services: 44% of the jobs in Barneveld
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Barneveld, 2013 → 2023: 374 → 383. 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 Barneveld’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily flow of workers through Barneveld
On a workday 662 residents head out to work, 35 work right here, and 348 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Barneveld on a workday afternoon, 24% 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.
Where the trip to work from Barneveld ends
Where Barneveld clocks in
25% of workers
10% 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.
From Barneveld, about 26 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Barneveld workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 738 commuters (the 9% 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.
Barneveld is a driving town
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.3% 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 811 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). 1.2% of Barneveld households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Barneveld’s commuters take a bus or train.
Barneveld next to U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800: 382nd of 5,400 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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| 25 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 45 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 49 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 380 | Poygan WI | 1,297 | $98K | 2.9% | 0.3% | 1% | A |
| 381 | Fort Calhoun NE | 1,108 | $102K | 6.9% | 2.1% | 9% | A− |
| 382 | Barneveld WI | 1,333 | $114K | 4.6% | 2.8% | 5% | A− |
| 383 | Palmyra WI | 1,230 | $86K | 3.7% | 2.9% | 1% | A− |
| 384 | Northfield KY | 1,015 | $111K | 10.5% | 0.5% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Barneveld, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
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 Barneveld: questions
What is the median household income in Barneveld?
$113,542 (±$10,683) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Barneveld?
4.6%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Barneveld?
26 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Barneveld work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Madison (25%, 24 mi), Dodgeville (10%, 12 mi), Mount Horeb (4%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Barneveld walkable?
Barneveld is more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.0 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Barneveld without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Barneveld, from the people who make the trip.
More of Barneveld
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.