Most of Clarks Mills commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
5% of workers work from home, where Wisconsin as a whole has 13%. 11 jobs are based in Clarks Mills, and 72 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any stay in Clarks Mills for work; outside it, Manitowoc is the main destination (15%, 9 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Clarks Mills quiets down on a workday
On a workday 72 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 11 people come in from elsewhere.
About 26 people are in Clarks Mills on a workday afternoon, 70% 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.
Where Clarks Mills’ working residents head each day
Where Clarks Mills clocks in
10% of workers
8% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Clarks Mills
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Clarks Mills, 2013 → 2023: 16 → 11. 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 Clarks Mills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Clarks Mills: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Clarks Mills workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 38 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.
How far it is to work from Clarks Mills
About 18% 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.
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 Clarks Mills: questions
What is the median household income in Clarks Mills?
$103,750 (±$8,911) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Clarks Mills?
0.0%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Clarks Mills?
24 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Clarks Mills work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Manitowoc (15%, 9 mi), Valders (10%, 2 mi), Sheboygan (8%, 25 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Clarks Mills 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 Clarks Mills, from the people who make the trip.
More of Clarks Mills
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.