Photo: Wwahammy · CC BY-SA 4.0Combined Locks has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
The two grades for Combined Locks are A− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. There are 606 jobs in Combined Locks, against 1,892 working residents. Only 2% stay in Combined Locks for work; outside it, Appleton is the main destination (19%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Combined Locks apart
Combined Locks makes and builds things
55% of the jobs based in Combined Locks are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Combined Locks residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 23%. The jobs ↓
Combined Locks and Appleton trade workers both ways
Appleton is the top workplace for Combined Locks residents (19%) and also where the most people who work in Combined Locks come from (14% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Combined Locks than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Combined Locks fell from 963 in 2013 to 606 in 2023, −37%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Combined Locks empties out on a workday
About 2,300 people are in Combined Locks on a workday afternoon, 35% fewer than the 3,600 who live here: 1,900 head out to work and 570 come in. Day and night ↓
Most jobs in Combined Locks pay over $40,000 a year
72% of the jobs based in Combined Locks pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), the top earnings band in the Census data. The jobs ↓
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.
How Combined Locks earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Combined Locks is better than 81% of U.S. towns, #158 of 362 in Wisconsin. The poverty rate holds Combined Locks’ grade up (2.0%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (5.3%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Combined Locks could be anywhere from B to A+.
Factories, building and farms: 55% of the jobs in Combined Locks
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Combined Locks, 2013 → 2023: 963 → 606. 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 Combined Locks’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where the trip to work from Combined Locks ends
Where Combined Locks clocks in
19% of workers
7% 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.
Who works in Combined Locks, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 1,860 residents head out to work, 32 work right here, and 574 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,300 people are in Combined Locks on a workday afternoon, 35% 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.
Commuting from Combined Locks: about 18 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Combined Locks workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,646 commuters (the 7% 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 Combined Locks, by distance
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 Combined Locks, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Combined Locks is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns, #214 of 362 in Wisconsin. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 4.8% across Wisconsin.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,770 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). 3.8% of Combined Locks households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Combined Locks’ commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Combined Locks is 778th of 4,474 U.S. towns of 2,500 to 4,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 43 | Ottawa WI | 3,642 | $153K | 1.0% | 1.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 57 | Jackson WI | 3,950 | $117K | 0.6% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 62 | Bristol WI | 4,347 | $141K | 1.2% | 0.8% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 776 | Haskell AR | 4,362 | $86K | 7.6% | 0.8% | 5% | A− |
| 777 | Green Oaks IL | 4,082 | $148K | 6.1% | 6.3% | 2% | A− |
| 778 | Combined Locks WI | 3,626 | $93K | 2.0% | 5.3% | 2% | A− |
| 779 | Moral Township IN | 4,593 | $98K | 4.4% | 4.7% | 6% | A− |
| 780 | Staunton Township OH | 2,513 | $111K | 7.8% | 2.9% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,474 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Combined Locks, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Next door is work for 17% of Combined Locks
The biggest share goes to Kaukauna (6%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Combined Locks workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Combined Locks | – | A− | C+ | 18 min | $93,490 |
| Buchanan | 3% | B+ | B− | 21 min | $105,478 |
| Kimberly | 5% | B+ | A− | 17 min | $70,451 |
| Kaukauna | 6% | A− | B | 21 min | $80,365 |
| Little Chute | 3% | A | B− | 19 min | $87,538 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Combined Locks’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 Combined Locks: questions
What is the median household income in Combined Locks?
$93,490 (±$13,885) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Combined Locks?
2.0%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Combined Locks?
18 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Combined Locks work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Appleton (19%, 4 mi), Grand Chute (7%, 8 mi), Neenah (6%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Combined Locks walkable?
Combined Locks is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Combined Locks without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Combined Locks, from the people who make the trip.
More of Combined Locks
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.