Photo: User:Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 2.5How Calumet works: jobs, income and commuting
Only 5% stay in Calumet for work; outside it, Fond du Lac is the main destination (23%, 12 miles). For jobs and income Calumet is better than 73% of U.S. towns (B+); for walkability it is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns (C−). A typical one-way commute lasts 26 minutes, where Wisconsin has 22 and the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Calumet
Calumet and Fond du Lac trade workers both ways
Fond du Lac is the top workplace for Calumet residents (23%) and also where the most people who work in Calumet come from (18% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Calumet makes and builds things
58% of the jobs based in Calumet are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Calumet residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 40%. The jobs ↓
Many jobs in Calumet pay little
32% of the jobs based in Calumet pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. The jobs ↓
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 722 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Calumet
The poverty rate is its strongest input (4.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 53% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Calumet’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, Calumet could be anywhere from B to A−.
Where Calumet goes to work
Where Calumet clocks in
23% 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.
Goods jobs make up 58% of work in Calumet
496 jobs are based in Calumet.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Calumet, 2013 → 2023: 289 → 496. 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 Calumet’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Calumet on a workday afternoon
On a workday 685 residents head out to work, 37 work right here, and 459 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Calumet on a workday afternoon, 16% fewer than live here.
0.69 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
About 26 minutes each way for Calumet’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Calumet workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 522 commuters (the 16% 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.
Miles to work from Calumet
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 Calumet walk, bike or ride to work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 4.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 618 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). 2.4% of Calumet households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Calumet’s commuters take a bus or train.
Calumet places 891st of 5,877 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | 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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| 26 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 50 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 889 | Lecompton Township KS | 1,689 | $96K | 7.9% | 1.8% | 2% | B+ |
| 890 | Holland WI | 1,538 | $75K | 3.8% | 2.1% | 4% | B+ |
| 891 | Calumet WI | 1,432 | $81K | 4.4% | 0.0% | 5% | B+ |
| 892 | Little Walnut Village NM | 1,445 | $125K | 2.8% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| 893 | Howey-in-the-Hills FL | 1,857 | $96K | 4.6% | 2.6% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | 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 Calumet, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
How Calumet compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Marshfield (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Calumet workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calumet | – | B+ | C− | 26 min | $81,486 |
| Brothertown | under 2% | B | C | 26 min | $71,667 |
| Taycheedah | under 2% | A | C− | 25 min | $105,690 |
| Black Wolf | under 2% | A | C− | 23 min | $98,669 |
| New Holstein | under 2% | B | C | 27 min | $101,328 |
| Marshfield | 2% | B | B− | 29 min | $98,750 |
| Friendship | under 2% | A | D | 22 min | $70,272 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Calumet’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 Calumet: questions
What is the median household income in Calumet?
$81,486 (±$11,427) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Calumet?
4.4%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Calumet?
26 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Calumet work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fond du Lac (23%, 12 mi), Plymouth (4%, 20 mi), Forest (3%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Calumet walkable?
Calumet is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.8 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Calumet without a car?
0% 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 Calumet, from the people who make the trip.
More of Calumet
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.