Photo: Downspec · CC BY-SA 4.0Delavan has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Delavan has 590 jobs; 2,558 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Delavan are B+ for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Only 2% work in Delavan; the top destination outside it is Delavan (16%, 3 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Delavan in brief
Delavan and Delavan trade workers both ways
Delavan is the top workplace for Delavan residents (16%) and also where the most people who work in Delavan come from (12% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Delavan is a place people come home to
There are 590 jobs based in Delavan, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Delavan has about 3,200 people in it, 38% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Delavan workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 27 minutes each way, against 22 across Wisconsin. Over a year that’s about 207 hours of commuting, 38 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Jobs & income in Delavan: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Delavan is better than 73% of U.S. towns, #209 of 362 in Wisconsin. Unemployment is its strongest input (2.3%, U.S. 5.2%); household income ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns ($75,824, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Delavan could be anywhere from B− to A.
Where the trip to work from Delavan ends
Where Delavan clocks in
16% 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.
Who works in Delavan, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 2,503 residents head out to work, 55 work right here, and 535 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,200 people are in Delavan on a workday afternoon, 38% 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 2024, primary jobs.
A commute of about 27 minutes in Delavan
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Delavan workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,998 commuters (the 14% 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.
What Delavan’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Delavan, 2014 → 2024: 515 → 590. 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 Delavan’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Delavan goes to work
About 16% 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.
Getting around Delavan: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Delavan is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns, #320 of 362 in Wisconsin. Both inputs place Delavan near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,312 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). 2.8% of Delavan households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Delavan’s commuters take a bus or train.
Delavan is 1,089th of 3,696 U.S. towns of 3,600 to 7,000 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 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | Fox Point WI | 6,583 | $141K | 2.5% | 0.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 35 | Elm Grove WI | 6,354 | $158K | 4.4% | 0.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 56 | Ottawa WI | 3,642 | $153K | 1.0% | 1.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,087 | Deerfield NH | 4,989 | $132K | 6.8% | 2.5% | 8% | B+ |
| 1,088 | Burton Township OH | 4,392 | $82K | 7.0% | 2.7% | 10% | B+ |
| 1,089 | Delavan WI | 5,210 | $76K | 6.8% | 2.3% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,090 | Oneida WI | 4,568 | $77K | 10.2% | 1.9% | 8% | B+ |
| 1,091 | Wamego KS | 4,912 | $79K | 5.2% | 1.6% | 23% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,696 | 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 Delavan, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Work in the towns next to Delavan
The biggest share goes to Elkhorn (7%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Delavan workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delavan | – | B+ | C− | 27 min | $75,824 |
| Elkhorn | 7% | A− | B− | 21 min | $77,649 |
| Williams Bay | under 2% | B+ | B+ | 27 min | $84,113 |
| Walworth | under 2% | A | C | 26 min | $94,286 |
| Darien | under 2% | — | — | 19 min | — |
| Sugar Creek | under 2% | A | B | 27 min | $101,703 |
Same-state neighbors only. Darien: the same community as the village of that name, graded once. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Delavan’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 Delavan: questions
What is the median household income in Delavan?
$75,824 (±$9,867) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Delavan?
6.8%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Delavan?
27 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Delavan work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Delavan (16%, 3 mi), Elkhorn (7%, 5 mi), Lake Geneva (6%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Delavan walkable?
Delavan is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.6 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Delavan without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Delavan, from the people who make the trip.
More of Delavan
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.