Households in Bridgeport earn more than those in 74% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 2.1% of residents, against 10.6% across Wisconsin. Bridgeport grades B+ for jobs and income and B for walkability. 3% of workers work from home; Wisconsin has 13%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Bridgeport at work: what stands out
A lot of Bridgeport works one town over
40% of working residents work in a town that borders Bridgeport: Prairie du Chien (35%), Prairie du Chien (3%) and Marquette (2%). Next door ↓
Bridgeport is where the jobs are
Bridgeport has 828 jobs, 1.7 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
32% 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 484 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Bridgeport earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Bridgeport is better than 69% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Bridgeport’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 18% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (2.4%) is left out: Bridgeport’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, Bridgeport could be anywhere from B to B+.
Who leaves Bridgeport for work, and who comes in
On a workday 446 residents head out to work, 38 work right here, and 790 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Bridgeport on a workday afternoon, 34% more than live here.
1.7 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
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 distance from Bridgeport to work
About 32% 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 travels to work in Bridgeport, and from where
Where Bridgeport clocks in
35% of workers
6% of workers
4% 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.
Inside Bridgeport’s 828 jobs
828 jobs are based in Bridgeport.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bridgeport, 2013 → 2023: 862 → 828. 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 Bridgeport’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 18 minutes to work from Bridgeport
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bridgeport workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 478 commuters (the 3% 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.
Most of Bridgeport commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bridgeport is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Bridgeport near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 492 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). 1.5% of Bridgeport households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Bridgeport’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Bridgeport ranks: 507th of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | 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+ |
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| 17 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 67 | Kaukauna WI | 1,295 | $122K | 2.0% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 505 | Wathena KS | 1,273 | $87K | 5.6% | 2.7% | 13% | B+ |
| 506 | Serena Township IL | 1,121 | $104K | 5.6% | 5.4% | <1% | B+ |
| 507 | Bridgeport WI | 1,006 | $96K | 2.1% | 2.4% | 8% | B+ |
| 508 | Shandon CA | 1,169 | $107K | 1.6% | 10.4% | 1% | B+ |
| 509 | Loma CO | 1,350 | $141K | 5.9% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 Bridgeport, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Bordering towns draw 40% of Bridgeport’s workers
The biggest share goes to Prairie du Chien (35%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Bridgeport workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bridgeport | – | B+ | B | 18 min | $96,250 |
| Prairie du Chien | 35% | C | A | 16 min | $54,268 |
| Wyalusing | under 2% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Millville | under 2% | — | — | 45 min | — |
| Prairie du Chien | 3% | — | — | 18 min | — |
| Wauzeka | under 2% | — | — | 32 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Wyalusing, Millville and Wauzeka: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Prairie du Chien: the same community as the city of that name, graded once. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Bridgeport’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 Bridgeport: questions
What is the median household income in Bridgeport?
$96,250 (±$11,471) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bridgeport?
2.1%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bridgeport?
18 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bridgeport work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Prairie du Chien (35%, 3 mi), La Crosse (6%, 56 mi), Boscobel (4%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bridgeport walkable?
Bridgeport is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.6 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bridgeport without a car?
1% 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 Bridgeport, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bridgeport
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.