Photo: Skye Marthaler · CC BY-SA 4.0How Cadott works: jobs, income and commuting
Commuters spend 24 minutes getting to work on average; Wisconsin averages 22, the U.S. 26. Jobs and income earn Cadott C; getting around on foot earns it B−. Only 6% stay in Cadott for work; outside it, Eau Claire is the main destination (16%, 19 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs & income in Cadott: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Cadott is better than 25% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Cadott’s grade up ($71,111, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (15.8%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (0.6%) is left out: Cadott’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, Cadott could be anywhere from D to B−.
Who works in Cadott, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 490 residents head out to work, 30 work right here, and 546 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.11 per resident).
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 Cadott’s working residents head each day
Where Cadott clocks in
14% 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.
The kinds of work in Cadott
576 jobs are based in Cadott.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cadott, 2013 → 2023: 523 → 576. 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 Cadott’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Cadott: about 24 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cadott workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 702 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.
The distance from Cadott to work
About 21% 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.
Most trips from Cadott start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cadott is more walkable than 51% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Cadott 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 759 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). 8.1% of Cadott households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Cadott’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Cadott is 3,962nd of 6,308 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 50 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 55 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,960 | Leicester VT | 1,023 | $70K | 11.8% | 3.8% | 3% | C |
| 3,961 | Vander NC | 1,922 | $67K | 23.4% | 4.9% | 1% | C |
| 3,962 | Cadott WI | 1,473 | $71K | 15.8% | 0.6% | 6% | C |
| 3,963 | Smyrna Township IN | 1,090 | $71K | 12.7% | 5.2% | <1% | C |
| 3,964 | Rossville Township KS | 1,893 | $63K | 14.7% | 6.5% | 1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | 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 Cadott, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Around Cadott: the bordering towns
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Cadott’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 Cadott: questions
What is the median household income in Cadott?
$71,111 (±$20,733) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cadott?
15.8%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cadott?
24 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cadott work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Eau Claire (16%, 19 mi), Chippewa Falls (14%, 12 mi), Altoona (4%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cadott walkable?
Cadott is more walkable than 51% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cadott without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cadott, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cadott
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.