Photo: Bobak Ha'Eri · CC BY 3.0How Cornucopia works: jobs, income and commuting
Commuters spend 18 minutes getting to work on average, next to 22 for Wisconsin and 26 for the U.S. Hardly any work in Cornucopia itself; outside it, Bayfield draws the most (32%, 14 miles). Cornucopia has 22 jobs, against 38 working residents.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Cornucopia quiets down on a workday
On a workday 38 residents head out to work, 0 work right here, and 22 people come in from elsewhere.
About 92 people are in Cornucopia on a workday afternoon, 15% fewer than live here.
0.58 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
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 people from Cornucopia work
Where Cornucopia clocks in
32% of workers
18% of workers
13% 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.
What Cornucopia’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cornucopia, 2013 → 2023: 25 → 22. 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 Cornucopia’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 18 minutes in Cornucopia
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cornucopia workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 50 commuters (the 15% 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 Cornucopia goes to work
About 21% 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 Cornucopia: questions
What is the median household income in Cornucopia?
$104,375 (±$48,052) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cornucopia?
3.7%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cornucopia?
18 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cornucopia work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bayfield (32%, 14 mi), Ashland (18%, 22 mi), Bayfield (13%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Cornucopia 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 Cornucopia, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cornucopia
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.