Photo: Corey Coyle · CC BY 3.0Most of Berry commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
For jobs and income Berry is better than 82% of U.S. towns (A−); for walkability it is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns (C+). Berry has 106 jobs, and 555 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Berry; the top destination outside it is Madison (33%, 13 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Berry: the gist
Berry is a place people come home to
There are 106 jobs based in Berry, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Berry has about 690 people in it, 39% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
One in three of Berry works in Madison
183 working residents, 33%, have their main job in Madison, 13 miles away. That’s far more as work in Berry itself. 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 555 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Berry’s Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate is its strongest input (2.2%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 58% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (1.0%) is left out: Berry’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, Berry could be anywhere from B to A.
Who leaves Berry for work, and who comes in
On a workday 553 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 104 people come in from elsewhere.
About 690 people are in Berry on a workday afternoon, 39% 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.
The towns that employ Berry’s residents
Where Berry clocks in
33% of workers
9% of workers
5% 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.
Berry makes things: 63% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Berry, 2013 → 2023: 68 → 106. 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 Berry’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Berry, about 23 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Berry workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 411 commuters (the 20% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Berry
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.
The commute in Berry is mostly behind the wheel
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 4.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 513 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 1.7% of Berry households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Berry’s commuters take a bus or train.
Berry places 306th of 3,771 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 44 | Big Bend WI | 1,498 | $135K | 3.2% | 0.6% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 304 | Christiana WI | 1,186 | $84K | 4.6% | 2.5% | <1% | A− |
| 305 | Casco WI | 1,170 | $97K | 2.3% | 0.5% | 1% | A− |
| 306 | Berry WI | 1,138 | $84K | 2.2% | 1.0% | <1% | A− |
| 307 | Medford MN | 1,377 | $108K | 4.9% | 3.3% | 3% | A− |
| 308 | Barre WI | 1,262 | $106K | 4.3% | 0.9% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Berry, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Next door to Berry
The biggest share goes to Cross Plains (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Berry workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berry | – | A− | C+ | 23 min | $83,750 |
| Cross Plains | 4% | A+ | B+ | 23 min | $105,145 |
| Springfield | under 2% | A+ | C | 19 min | $135,216 |
| Cross Plains | under 2% | A+ | C | 23 min | $162,000 |
| Roxbury | 3% | A+ | D | 28 min | $132,188 |
| Black Earth | under 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Mazomanie | under 2% | A− | D− | 23 min | $87,679 |
| Dane | under 2% | — | — | 23 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Black Earth and Dane: the same communities as the places of those names, graded once. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Berry’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 Berry: questions
What is the median household income in Berry?
$83,750 (±$33,327) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Berry?
2.2%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Berry?
23 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Berry work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Madison (33%, 13 mi), Middleton (9%, 9 mi), Prairie du Sac (5%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Berry walkable?
Berry is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.2 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Berry without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Berry, from the people who make the trip.
More of Berry
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.