Most of Butler commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Working from home is the commute for 30% of workers, next to 13% for Wisconsin as a whole. Butler has 3 jobs; 34 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Butler itself; outside it, Eaton draws the most (15%, 14 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in Butler by day
On a workday 34 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 3 people come in from elsewhere.
About 81 people are in Butler on a workday afternoon, 28% 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.
Where Butler’s working residents head each day
Where Butler clocks in
Lines 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.
Goods, not services: 33% of the jobs in Butler
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Butler’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 26 minutes in Butler
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Butler workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 37 commuters (the 30% 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 it is to work from Butler
About 29% 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.
Butler and the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Butler workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Butler | – | — | — | 26 min | $77,614 |
| Worden | under 3% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Mead | under 3% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Foster | under 3% | — | — | 25 min | — |
| Wilson | under 3% | — | — | 31 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Worden, Mead and Foster: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Wilson: the same community as the town of that name, graded once. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Butler’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 Butler: questions
What is the median household income in Butler?
$77,614 (±$23,138) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Butler?
9.3%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Butler?
26 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 30% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Butler work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Eaton (15%, 14 mi), Greenwood (9%, 14 mi), Eau Claire (9%, 30 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Butler without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Butler, from the people who make the trip.
More of Butler
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.