Bloomfield has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Employers in Bloomfield report 521 jobs, and 2,009 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for Bloomfield are B+ for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Measured by household income, Bloomfield is ahead of 75% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Bloomfield
Bloomfield workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 31 minutes each way, against 22 across Wisconsin. Over a year that’s about 238 hours of commuting, 69 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Bloomfield is a place people come home to
There are 521 jobs based in Bloomfield, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
34% of the jobs based in Bloomfield are held by workers 29 or younger, against 27% of Bloomfield’s own working residents. 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.
Where Bloomfield’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Bloomfield is better than 74% of U.S. towns, #202 of 362 in Wisconsin. Household income is its strongest input ($98,068, U.S. $80,734); unemployment ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (3.7%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment and job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Bloomfield could be anywhere from C to A+.
How long Bloomfield spends getting to work: about 31 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bloomfield workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,274 commuters (the 7% 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.
Bloomfield by day and by night
On a workday 1,964 residents head out to work, 45 work right here, and 476 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,900 people are in Bloomfield on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
What Bloomfield’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bloomfield, 2013 → 2023: 182 → 521. 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 Bloomfield’s own residents hold wherever they work.
13% of working residents work in Lake Geneva
Where Bloomfield clocks in
6% 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.
How many miles Bloomfield commutes
About 19% 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.
Driving is how Bloomfield gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bloomfield is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns, #334 of 362 in Wisconsin. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 4.8% across Wisconsin.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,440 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). 0.0% of Bloomfield households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bloomfield’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 3,255 U.S. towns of 4,500 to 8,600, Bloomfield comes 984th on jobs and income
| # | 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 | Norwood NJ | 5,817 | $178K | 2.8% | 0.9% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Fox Point WI | 6,583 | $141K | 2.5% | 0.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | Elm Grove WI | 6,354 | $158K | 4.4% | 0.7% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 44 | Waukesha WI | 8,507 | $131K | 3.0% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 982 | Crawford Township OH | 4,568 | $77K | 5.8% | 0.8% | 22% | B+ |
| 983 | Stratford NJ | 7,200 | $98K | 9.8% | 4.7% | 4% | B+ |
| 984 | Bloomfield WI | 6,369 | $98K | 7.5% | 3.7% | 2% | B+ |
| 985 | Munroe Falls OH | 4,973 | $81K | 7.3% | 3.7% | 2% | B+ |
| 986 | Green Township IN | 7,932 | $97K | 4.2% | 6.4% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,255 | 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 Bloomfield, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Work next door: 15% of Bloomfield’s workers
The biggest share goes to Lake Geneva (13%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Bloomfield workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bloomfield | – | B+ | C− | 31 min | $98,068 |
| Lyons | 2% | B− | C− | 25 min | $83,919 |
| Powers Lake | under 2% | — | — | 31 min | — |
| Linn | under 2% | A | B | 27 min | $99,205 |
| Randall | under 2% | A | C− | 27 min | $115,665 |
| Lake Geneva | 13% | B | A− | 23 min | $75,629 |
| Genoa City | under 2% | B+ | C− | 30 min | $81,213 |
| Lake Ivanhoe | under 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Powers Lake and Lake Ivanhoe: Census-designated places inside larger towns, graded as part of them. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Bloomfield’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 Bloomfield: questions
What is the median household income in Bloomfield?
$98,068 (±$47,184) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bloomfield?
7.5%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bloomfield?
31 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bloomfield work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lake Geneva (13%, 4 mi), Madison (6%, 66 mi), Elkhorn (5%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bloomfield walkable?
Bloomfield is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bloomfield without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bloomfield, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bloomfield
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.