Crivitz draws 854 commuters a day, with 2.0 jobs for every working resident
There are 970 jobs in Crivitz, against 482 working residents. Crivitz grades D for jobs and income and A− for walkability. Measured by household income, Crivitz is behind 81% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Crivitz stands out on work
Crivitz is where the jobs are
Crivitz has 970 jobs, 2.0 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 1,600 people are in town, 43% more than the 1,100 who live here. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
33% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Many jobs in Crivitz pay little
30% of the jobs based in Crivitz pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. 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; with 482 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Crivitz’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Crivitz is better than 10% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Crivitz’s grade up (14.7%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 10% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (1.4%) is left out: Crivitz’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, Crivitz could be anywhere from D− to C−.
How many people are in Crivitz by day
On a workday 366 residents head out to work and 116 work right here.
About 1,600 people are in Crivitz on a workday afternoon, 43% more 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.
Half of Crivitz commutes less than 21 miles
About 33% 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.
The kinds of work in Crivitz
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Crivitz, 2013 → 2023: 698 → 970. 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 Crivitz’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The towns that send workers to Crivitz
Where Crivitz clocks in
13% of workers
7% of workers
7% 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.
The trip to work from Crivitz: about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Crivitz workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 403 commuters (the 2% 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.
Crivitz is easy on foot, hard by bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Crivitz is more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 7.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 412 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). 11.6% of Crivitz households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of Crivitz’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500, Crivitz comes 3,097th on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,095 | Tarkio MO | 1,478 | $57K | 14.4% | 4.1% | 17% | D |
| 3,096 | Morton WA | 1,102 | $58K | 13.7% | 15.9% | 17% | D |
| 3,097 | Crivitz WI | 1,137 | $55K | 14.7% | 1.4% | 24% | D |
| 3,098 | Penobscot ME | 1,159 | $63K | 16.0% | 4.2% | 6% | D |
| 3,099 | Nadeau Township MI | 1,080 | $55K | 12.8% | 7.1% | 4% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Crivitz, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
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 Crivitz: questions
What is the median household income in Crivitz?
$55,250 (±$10,003) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Crivitz?
14.7%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Crivitz?
28 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Crivitz work?
24% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Marinette (13%, 21 mi), Green Bay (7%, 49 mi), Stephenson (7%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Crivitz walkable?
Crivitz is more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.7 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Crivitz without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Crivitz, from the people who make the trip.
More of Crivitz
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.