With 0.6 jobs for every working resident, most of Brothertown works elsewhere
Only 6% work in Brothertown; the top destination outside it is Chilton (11%, 8 miles). 375 jobs are based in Brothertown, against 658 working residents. The two grades for Brothertown are B for jobs and income and C for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Brothertown, in brief
How Brothertown earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Brothertown is better than 59% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Brothertown’s grade up (7.1%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($71,667, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (1.0%) is left out: Brothertown’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Brothertown could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
Goods, not services: 77% of the jobs in Brothertown
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Brothertown, 2014 → 2024: 291 → 375. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Brothertown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Brothertown by day and by night
On a workday 617 residents head out to work, 41 work right here, and 334 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Brothertown on a workday afternoon, 22% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Brothertown: the destinations
Where Brothertown clocks in
11% of workers
7% of workers
6% 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.
About 26 minutes each way for Brothertown’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Brothertown workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 560 commuters (the 17% 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.
Where in the region Brothertown works
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Brothertown, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Brothertown is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 3.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 676 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). 1.4% of Brothertown households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Brothertown’s commuters take a bus or train.
1,242nd of 4,866: where Brothertown ranks among U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 42 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,240 | Excelsior WI | 1,616 | $92K | 8.4% | 2.0% | 1% | B |
| 1,241 | Stryker OH | 1,239 | $73K | 4.7% | 2.0% | 3% | B |
| 1,242 | Brothertown WI | 1,282 | $72K | 7.1% | 1.0% | 6% | B |
| 1,243 | Scott WI | 1,371 | $88K | 7.3% | 6.0% | 1% | B |
| 1,244 | Grayson CA | 1,182 | $82K | 7.0% | 2.1% | 0% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Brothertown, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Work in the towns next to Brothertown
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Brothertown workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brothertown | – | B | C | 26 min | $71,667 |
| Calumet | under 3% | B+ | C− | 26 min | $81,486 |
| Stockbridge | under 3% | A− | C | 35 min | $98,988 |
| Chilton | under 3% | B | C | 22 min | $71,933 |
| Charlestown | under 3% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Black Wolf | under 3% | A | C− | 23 min | $98,669 |
| New Holstein | under 3% | B | C | 27 min | $101,328 |
Same-state neighbors only. Charlestown: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Brothertown’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 2024, 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 Brothertown: questions
What is the median household income in Brothertown?
$71,667 (±$5,554) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Brothertown?
7.1%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Brothertown?
26 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Brothertown work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Chilton (11%, 8 mi), Appleton (7%, 22 mi), Fond du Lac (6%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Brothertown walkable?
Brothertown is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 3.5 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Brothertown without a car?
<1% 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 Brothertown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Brothertown
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.