Bonduel has lower household incomes than 68% of U.S. towns
For jobs and income Bonduel is better than 42% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 78% of U.S. towns (A−). Poverty touches 9.5% of residents (Wisconsin 10.6%). Only 6% stay in Bonduel for work; outside it, Green Bay is the main destination (16%, 27 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Bonduel apart on work
Bonduel’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Bonduel is Green Bay, 27 miles away as the crow flies. 16% of working residents (118) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Bonduel makes and builds things
49% of the jobs based in Bonduel are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Bonduel residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 32%. 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 747 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Bonduel
The poverty rate holds Bonduel’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($63,672, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (1.3%) is left out: Bonduel’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, Bonduel could be anywhere from C to B.
Half of Bonduel commutes less than 26 miles
About 21% 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.
Bonduel makes things: 49% of its jobs are in goods
748 jobs are based in Bonduel.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bonduel, 2013 → 2023: 753 → 748. 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 Bonduel’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How a workday changes Bonduel
On a workday 705 residents head out to work, 42 work right here, and 706 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.00 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.
Where Bonduel’s working residents head each day
Where Bonduel clocks in
16% of workers
11% 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.
Commuting from Bonduel: about 24 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bonduel workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 704 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Bonduel
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 8.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 7.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 757 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). 1.9% of Bonduel households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bonduel’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Bonduel ranks: 2,482nd of 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 50 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,480 | New London MN | 1,322 | $68K | 7.3% | 0.2% | 13% | C+ |
| 2,481 | Thorndale TX | 1,456 | $64K | 9.9% | 5.8% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,482 | Bonduel WI | 1,409 | $64K | 9.5% | 1.3% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,483 | Onekama Township MI | 1,328 | $70K | 4.0% | 1.8% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,484 | Bear Lake Township MI | 1,806 | $73K | 4.5% | 4.8% | 5% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | 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 Bonduel, 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 Bonduel: questions
What is the median household income in Bonduel?
$63,672 (±$3,338) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bonduel?
9.5%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bonduel?
24 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bonduel work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Green Bay (16%, 27 mi), Shawano (11%, 7 mi), Ashwaubenon (5%, 25 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bonduel walkable?
Bonduel is more walkable than 78% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bonduel without a car?
0% 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 Bonduel, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bonduel
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.