Most of Brice Prairie commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Only 4% work in Brice Prairie itself; outside it, La Crosse draws the most (40%, 9 miles). There are 475 jobs in Brice Prairie for 983 working residents. The trip to work takes 24 minutes on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Brice Prairie
Stores, warehouses and trucking
72% of the jobs in Brice Prairie are in trade, transport and utilities, against 21% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Brice Prairie and La Crosse trade workers both ways
La Crosse is the top workplace for Brice Prairie residents (40%) and also where the most people who work in Brice Prairie come from (23% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Most Brice Prairie residents work close to home
61% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. 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 983 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What Brice Prairie’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Brice Prairie, 2013 → 2023: 276 → 475. 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 Brice Prairie’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Brice Prairie’s working residents head each day
Where Brice Prairie clocks in
40% 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.
The distance from Brice Prairie to work
About 16% 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.
Who leaves Brice Prairie for work, and who comes in
On a workday 947 residents head out to work, 36 work right here, and 439 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Brice Prairie on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
A commute of about 24 minutes in Brice Prairie
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Brice Prairie workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 851 commuters (the 10% 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.
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 Brice Prairie: questions
What is the median household income in Brice Prairie?
$94,408 (±$15,535) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Brice Prairie?
2.1%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Brice Prairie?
24 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Brice Prairie work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are La Crosse (40%, 9 mi), Onalaska (14%, 6 mi), Holmen (8%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Brice Prairie 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 Brice Prairie, from the people who make the trip.
More of Brice Prairie
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.