Photo: I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: · CC BY-SA 3.0Hardly anyone in Brillion is out of work
Household incomes here are lower than in 77% of U.S. towns. Brillion grades B for jobs and income and B for walkability. About one in five work in Brillion itself; outside it, Appleton draws the most (8%, 18 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Brillion, in a few figures
Brillion makes and builds things
55% of the jobs based in Brillion are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Brillion residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 36%. The jobs ↓
Brillion is where the jobs are
Brillion has 2,752 jobs, 1.7 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
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.
Income, poverty and work: Brillion’s grade explained
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Brillion is better than 59% of U.S. towns, #263 of 362 in Wisconsin. Unemployment holds Brillion’s grade up (hardly any, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($57,955, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Brillion could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Making and building: 55% of jobs based in Brillion
2,752 jobs are based in Brillion.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Brillion, 2013 → 2023: 2,493 → 2,752. 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 Brillion’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who works in Brillion, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 1,229 residents head out to work, 365 work right here, and 2,387 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,500 people are in Brillion on a workday afternoon, 35% 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.
Where Brillion’s workers come from
Where Brillion clocks in
8% of workers
4% 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.
From Brillion, about 22 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Brillion workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,447 commuters (the 8% 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.
How far Brillion goes to work
About 15% 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.
Few in Brillion walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Brillion is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns, #138 of 362 in Wisconsin. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 5.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,578 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). 2.8% of Brillion households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Brillion’s commuters take a bus or train.
Brillion is 1,826th of 4,593 U.S. towns of 2,300 to 4,500 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 42 | Ottawa WI | 3,642 | $153K | 1.0% | 1.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 55 | Jackson WI | 3,950 | $117K | 0.6% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 60 | Bristol WI | 4,347 | $141K | 1.2% | 0.8% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,824 | Basalt CO | 4,009 | $106K | 7.3% | 3.4% | 12% | B |
| 1,825 | Grundy Center IA | 2,814 | $80K | 11.1% | 1.5% | 27% | B |
| 1,826 | Brillion WI | 3,327 | $58K | 12.8% | 0.0% | 23% | B |
| 1,827 | Wiscasset ME | 3,998 | $71K | 5.7% | 2.6% | 13% | B |
| 1,828 | New Hampton NH | 2,428 | $95K | 13.2% | 0.6% | 6% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,593 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Brillion, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Around Brillion: the bordering towns
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Brillion workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brillion | – | B | B | 22 min | $57,955 |
| Rantoul | under 3% | — | — | 26 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Rantoul: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Brillion’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 Brillion: questions
What is the median household income in Brillion?
$57,955 (±$14,858) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Brillion?
12.8%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Brillion?
22 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Brillion work?
23% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Appleton (8%, 18 mi), Green Bay (4%, 24 mi), Grand Chute (4%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Brillion walkable?
Brillion is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.9 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Brillion without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Brillion, from the people who make the trip.
More of Brillion
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.