Photo: Corey Coyle · CC BY 3.0Cassian has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
67 jobs are based in Cassian for 509 working residents. Cassian grades C for jobs and income and D for walkability. Only 2% work in Cassian; the top destination outside it is Rhinelander (16%, 14 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Cassian
Cassian is a place people come home to
There are 67 jobs based in Cassian, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Cassian has about 640 people in it, 41% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
39% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Cassian workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 33 minutes each way, against 22 across Wisconsin. Over a year that’s about 253 hours of commuting, 84 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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 509 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Cassian’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Cassian is better than 30% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Cassian’s grade up ($79,750, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 3% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (2.9%) is left out: Cassian’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, Cassian could be anywhere from D to B−.
A workday in Cassian: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 501 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 59 people come in from elsewhere.
About 640 people are in Cassian on a workday afternoon, 41% 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 2023, primary jobs.
Cassian’s commute, mile by mile
About 39% 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.
Cassian’s commute takes about 33 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cassian workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 415 commuters (the 10% 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 people from Cassian work
Where Cassian clocks in
16% 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.
The kinds of work in Cassian
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cassian, 2013 → 2023: 48 → 67. 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 Cassian’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Few in Cassian walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cassian is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 4.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 462 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). 2.2% of Cassian households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Cassian’s commuters take a bus or train.
Cassian is 2,107th of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 44 | Big Bend WI | 1,498 | $135K | 3.2% | 0.6% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,105 | Enfield ME | 1,444 | $63K | 6.8% | 0.0% | 9% | C |
| 2,106 | Greenwood Township PA | 1,411 | $76K | 11.8% | 3.7% | 7% | C |
| 2,107 | Cassian WI | 1,086 | $80K | 9.9% | 2.9% | 2% | C |
| 2,108 | Charlotte Hall MD | 1,172 | $84K | 20.3% | 4.9% | 2% | C |
| 2,109 | La Union NM | 1,071 | $56K | 14.1% | 8.2% | 1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Cassian, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Work in the towns next to Cassian
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Cassian workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cassian | – | C | D | 33 min | $79,750 |
| Lake Tomahawk | under 2% | C | C− | 24 min | $70,278 |
| Nokomis | under 2% | C+ | D− | 26 min | $91,352 |
| Hazelhurst | under 2% | B− | D | 22 min | $85,300 |
| Little Rice | 2% | — | — | 45 min | — |
| Newbold | under 2% | B+ | C | 21 min | $75,847 |
Same-state neighbors only. Little Rice: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Little Rice. Darker towns draw more of Cassian’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 Cassian: questions
What is the median household income in Cassian?
$79,750 (±$13,512) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cassian?
9.9%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cassian?
33 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cassian work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Rhinelander (16%, 14 mi), Minocqua (12%, 13 mi), Tomahawk (6%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cassian walkable?
Cassian is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.1 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cassian 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 Cassian, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cassian
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.