Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 3.0Chilton has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Employers in Chilton report 187 jobs, and 495 of its residents work somewhere. Chilton grades B for jobs and income and C for walkability. For 5% of workers, the job is at home; Wisconsin has 13%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Chilton apart
How Chilton earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Chilton is better than 59% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Chilton’s grade up (7.3%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($71,933, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (0.7%) is left out: Chilton’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, Chilton could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
26% of working residents work in Chilton
Where Chilton clocks in
26% of workers
6% of workers
5% 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.
How a workday changes Chilton
On a workday 485 residents head out to work, 10 work right here, and 177 people come in from elsewhere.
About 700 people are in Chilton on a workday afternoon, 31% 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.
63% of the jobs in Chilton make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Chilton, 2014 → 2024: 253 → 187. 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 Chilton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Chilton takes about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Chilton workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 524 commuters (the 5% 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 commute from Chilton, by distance
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.
Getting around Chilton: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Chilton is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 5.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 553 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). 5.6% of Chilton households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Chilton’s commuters take a bus or train.
768th of 3,133: where Chilton ranks among U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | 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+ |
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| 17 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 67 | Kaukauna WI | 1,295 | $122K | 2.0% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 766 | Niles Township IN | 1,387 | $66K | 1.0% | 0.7% | 1% | B |
| 767 | Tymochtee Township OH | 1,072 | $84K | 5.6% | 0.0% | <1% | B |
| 768 | Chilton WI | 1,008 | $72K | 7.3% | 0.7% | 2% | B |
| 769 | Burgin KY | 1,027 | $78K | 8.6% | 0.2% | 2% | B |
| 770 | Washington Township OH | 1,086 | $65K | 1.4% | 2.6% | 2% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 Chilton, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Around Chilton: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Brothertown (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Chilton workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chilton | – | B | C | 22 min | $71,933 |
| Rantoul | under 3% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Brothertown | 2% | B | C | 26 min | $71,667 |
| Charlestown | under 3% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Stockbridge | under 3% | A− | C | 35 min | $98,988 |
| Woodville | under 3% | — | — | 25 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Rantoul and Charlestown: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Woodville: the same community as the village of that name, graded once. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Chilton’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 Chilton: questions
What is the median household income in Chilton?
$71,933 (±$16,480) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Chilton?
7.3%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Chilton?
22 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Chilton work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Chilton (26%, 3 mi), Appleton (6%, 18 mi), Kiel (5%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Chilton walkable?
Chilton is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.4 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Chilton without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Chilton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Chilton
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.