Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 4.0Day has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Only 1% work in Day itself; outside it, Wausau draws the most (15%, 24 miles). 110 jobs are based in Day; 526 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Day are B for jobs and income and C− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Day stands out on work
Day is a place people come home to
There are 110 jobs based in Day, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Day has about 640 people in it, 40% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Day’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Day is Wausau, 24 miles away as the crow flies. 15% of working residents (81) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
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 526 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The four measures behind Day’s grade
On income, poverty and job access, Day is better than 61% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Day’s grade up ($93,750, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 34% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (0.5%) is left out: Day’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Day could be anywhere from C to A−.
In and out of Day on a workday
On a workday 520 residents head out to work, 6 work right here, and 104 people come in from elsewhere.
About 640 people are in Day on a workday afternoon, 40% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Day
About 22% 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.
Where the trip to work from Day ends
Where Day clocks in
15% of workers
8% 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.
Goods, not services: 87% of the jobs in Day
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Day, 2013 → 2023: 111 → 110. 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 Day’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 21 minutes each way for Day’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Day workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 525 commuters (the 11% 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 in Day is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Day is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 3.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 588 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). 1.4% of Day households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Day’s commuters take a bus or train.
711th of 3,133: where Day ranks among U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | 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+ |
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| 17 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 67 | Kaukauna WI | 1,295 | $122K | 2.0% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 709 | Charleston NY | 1,356 | $91K | 4.1% | 7.3% | 2% | B |
| 710 | Washington Township OH | 1,266 | $96K | 6.1% | 5.7% | 1% | B |
| 711 | Day WI | 1,052 | $94K | 7.3% | 0.5% | 1% | B |
| 712 | March ARB CA | 1,273 | $72K | 29.3% | 9.3% | 2% | B |
| 713 | Bell Hill WA | 1,041 | $79K | 1.3% | 6.5% | 0% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 Day, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
How Day compares with the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Day workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day | – | B | C− | 21 min | $93,750 |
| Auburndale | under 3% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| McMillan | under 3% | B+ | C | 20 min | $112,917 |
| Green Valley | under 3% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Cleveland | under 3% | A− | C | 25 min | $100,705 |
Same-state neighbors only. Auburndale: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Green Valley: the same community as the town of that name, graded once. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Day’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 Day: questions
What is the median household income in Day?
$93,750 (±$26,277) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Day?
7.3%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Day?
21 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Day work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wausau (15%, 24 mi), Marshfield (14%, 9 mi), Mosinee (8%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Day walkable?
Day is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 3.3 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Day without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Day, from the people who make the trip.
More of Day
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.