Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 4.0Brazeau has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Only 1% work in Brazeau itself; outside it, Green Bay draws the most (7%, 42 miles). 55 jobs are based in Brazeau; 576 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Brazeau are C for jobs and income and C− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Brazeau apart on work
Brazeau is a place people come home to
There are 55 jobs based in Brazeau, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Brazeau has about 860 people in it, 38% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Brazeau workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 32 minutes each way, against 22 across Wisconsin. Over a year that’s about 245 hours of commuting, 77 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
A big share show a job far from home
30% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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 576 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Brazeau
On income, poverty and job access, Brazeau is better than 30% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Brazeau’s grade up (8.6%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 6% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (6.7%) is left out: Brazeau’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, Brazeau could be anywhere from C− to B−.
How many people are in Brazeau by day
On a workday 569 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 48 people come in from elsewhere.
About 860 people are in Brazeau on a workday afternoon, 38% 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.
About 32 minutes to work from Brazeau
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Brazeau workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 460 commuters (the 13% 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.
The commute from Brazeau, by distance
About 30% 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.
Where people from Brazeau work
Where Brazeau clocks in
7% of workers
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.
Jobs in Brazeau: what the 55 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Brazeau, 2013 → 2023: 51 → 55. 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 Brazeau’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Most trips from Brazeau start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Brazeau is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 2.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 526 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). 2.3% of Brazeau households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Brazeau’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900, Brazeau comes 3,326th 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,324 | Danby VT | 1,273 | $77K | 9.4% | 2.3% | 7% | C |
| 3,325 | Worcester WI | 1,546 | $68K | 7.0% | 2.5% | 4% | C |
| 3,326 | Brazeau WI | 1,381 | $73K | 8.6% | 6.7% | 1% | C |
| 3,327 | Bonner-West Riverside MT | 1,563 | $62K | 14.5% | 0.0% | 4% | C |
| 3,328 | Skyline Acres OH | 1,016 | $46K | 19.2% | 0.6% | 1% | 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 Brazeau, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Brazeau and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Mountain (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Brazeau workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brazeau | – | C | C− | 32 min | $72,688 |
| Beaver | under 3% | C− | D | 31 min | $65,455 |
| Mountain | 3% | — | — | 27 min | — |
| Pound | under 3% | B− | D | 27 min | $84,313 |
| Bagley | under 3% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Spruce | under 3% | — | — | 32 min | — |
| Stephenson | 3% | D | C− | 26 min | $56,550 |
Same-state neighbors only. Mountain, Bagley and Spruce: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Brazeau’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 Brazeau: questions
What is the median household income in Brazeau?
$72,688 (±$7,944) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Brazeau?
8.6%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Brazeau?
32 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Brazeau work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Green Bay (7%, 42 mi), Oconto Falls (6%, 18 mi), Marinette (5%, 28 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Brazeau walkable?
Brazeau is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 2.9 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Brazeau 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 Brazeau, from the people who make the trip.
More of Brazeau
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.