Most of Clarno commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
Clarno grades C+ for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. There are 231 jobs in Clarno for 552 working residents. For 24% of workers, the job is at home (Wisconsin 13%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Clarno: the gist
41% of Clarno works in Monroe
226 working residents, 41%, have their main job in Monroe, 4 miles away across the town line. That’s 21 times as many as work in Clarno itself. The commute map ↓
Home offices are common in Clarno
24% of Clarno workers work from home, against 13% across Wisconsin. 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 552 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Clarno’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Clarno is better than 40% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Clarno’s grade up ($84,375, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 31% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.6%) is left out: Clarno’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, Clarno could be anywhere from C− to B+.
41% of working residents work in Monroe
Where Clarno clocks in
41% of workers
9% of workers
3% 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.
A commute of about 23 minutes in Clarno
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Clarno workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 522 commuters (the 24% 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.
In and out of Clarno on a workday
On a workday 540 residents head out to work, 12 work right here, and 219 people come in from elsewhere.
About 820 people are in Clarno on a workday afternoon, 28% 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.
Goods, not services: 38% of the jobs in Clarno
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Clarno, 2013 → 2023: 157 → 231. 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 Clarno’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Clarno
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.
In Clarno, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Clarno is more walkable than 37% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 5.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 689 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). 1.6% of Clarno households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Clarno’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Clarno is 1,643rd of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,641 | Smithfield Township PA | 1,465 | $78K | 8.1% | 5.7% | 3% | C+ |
| 1,642 | Oakland Township PA | 1,335 | $78K | 8.1% | 6.6% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,643 | Clarno WI | 1,142 | $84K | 12.3% | 0.6% | 2% | C+ |
| 1,644 | Drayton SC | 1,452 | $78K | 27.1% | 0.0% | 2% | C+ |
| 1,645 | Owensville IN | 1,332 | $57K | 6.2% | 5.2% | 2% | 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 Clarno, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Next door is work for 44% of Clarno
The biggest share goes to Monroe (41%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Clarno workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clarno | – | C+ | C+ | 23 min | $84,375 |
| Monroe | 41% | B− | B+ | 18 min | $69,334 |
| Cadiz | under 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Jefferson | 2% | C | C+ | 21 min | $70,368 |
| Monroe | under 2% | A− | B− | 21 min | $106,563 |
| Sylvester | 1% | A− | D | 21 min | $111,375 |
Same-state neighbors only. Cadiz: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Clarno’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 Clarno: questions
What is the median household income in Clarno?
$84,375 (±$16,564) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Clarno?
12.3%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Clarno?
23 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 24% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Clarno work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Monroe (41%, 4 mi), Madison (9%, 39 mi), Brodhead (3%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Clarno walkable?
Clarno is more walkable than 37% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.0 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Clarno 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 Clarno, from the people who make the trip.
More of Clarno
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.