Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 3.0Households in Clintonville have lower incomes than those in 84% of U.S. towns
About one in four stay in Clintonville for work; outside it, Appleton is the main destination (6%, 30 miles). Below the poverty line: 16.7% of residents, against 10.6% across Wisconsin. Jobs and income earn Clintonville C; getting around on foot earns it B+.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Clintonville apart on work
Jobs & income in Clintonville: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Clintonville is better than 29% of U.S. towns, #336 of 362 in Wisconsin. Unemployment holds Clintonville’s grade up (3.3%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($53,304, U.S. $80,734).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Clintonville could be anywhere from D to B.
Clintonville works in goods: 53% of its jobs
3,007 jobs are based in Clintonville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Clintonville, 2014 → 2024: 3,401 → 3,007. 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 Clintonville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A workday in Clintonville: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 1,643 residents head out to work, 610 work right here, and 2,397 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,300 people are in Clintonville on a workday afternoon, 17% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.33 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Clintonville: the destinations
Where Clintonville clocks in
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.
Time on the road from Clintonville: about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Clintonville workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,867 commuters (the 12% 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.
Clintonville’s commute, mile by mile
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Most of Clintonville commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Clintonville is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns, #83 of 362 in Wisconsin. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 7.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 6.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,120 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). 13.7% of Clintonville households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Clintonville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 3,100 to 6,100, Clintonville ranks 3,021st of 4,088 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 51 | Ottawa WI | 3,642 | $153K | 1.0% | 1.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 61 | Jackson WI | 3,950 | $117K | 0.6% | 0.3% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 65 | Bristol WI | 4,347 | $141K | 1.2% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,019 | Cornelia GA | 5,459 | $40K | 30.3% | 2.2% | 17% | C |
| 3,020 | Rural Hall NC | 3,607 | $51K | 9.4% | 12.5% | 3% | C |
| 3,021 | Clintonville WI | 4,499 | $53K | 16.7% | 3.3% | 27% | C |
| 3,022 | Center Township OH | 4,390 | $68K | 14.6% | 5.4% | 24% | C |
| 3,023 | Pensacola Station FL | 5,281 | $72K | 20.8% | 2.0% | <1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,088 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | 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 Clintonville, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
How Clintonville compares with the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Clintonville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clintonville | – | C | B+ | 19 min | $53,304 |
| Larrabee | under 2% | C | C+ | 22 min | $80,515 |
| Matteson | under 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Matteson: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Clintonville’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 Clintonville: questions
What is the median household income in Clintonville?
$53,304 (±$18,212) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Clintonville?
16.7%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Clintonville?
19 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Clintonville work?
27% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Appleton (6%, 30 mi), Shawano (5%, 13 mi), Marion (4%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Clintonville walkable?
Clintonville is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.9 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Clintonville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Clintonville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Clintonville
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.