Photo: Downspec · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Delavan have lower incomes than those in 65% of U.S. towns
10.2% of residents are in poverty, next to 10.6% for Wisconsin as a whole. For jobs and income Delavan is better than 56% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns (B). About one in five work in Delavan itself; outside it, Elkhorn draws the most (7%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Delavan
Delavan’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
Job access by car holds Delavan’s grade up (ahead of 69% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($65,357, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Delavan could be anywhere from C to A−.
Where Delavan goes to work
Where Delavan clocks in
7% of workers
5% 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.
Delavan fills up on a workday
On a workday 3,397 residents head out to work, 891 work right here, and 5,144 people come in from elsewhere.
About 11,000 people are in Delavan on a workday afternoon, 19% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.41 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Factories, building and farms: 31% of the jobs in Delavan
6,035 jobs are based in Delavan.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Delavan, 2013 → 2023: 5,660 → 6,035. 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 Delavan’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Delavan’s commute takes about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.9 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 4,388 commuters (the 8% 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.
Miles to work from Delavan
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.
Few in Delavan walk, bike or ride to work
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 4,779 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). 5.1% of Delavan households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Delavan’s commuters take a bus or train.
Delavan places 1,504th of 2,841 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 6,500 to 12,500
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Pimmit Hills VA | 6,589 | $173K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Braddock VA | 6,536 | $212K | 0.9% | 1.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Fox Point WI | 6,583 | $141K | 2.5% | 0.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 40 | Waukesha WI | 8,507 | $131K | 3.0% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 58 | Genesee WI | 7,235 | $119K | 3.3% | 0.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,502 | Somersworth NH | 12,171 | $75K | 11.2% | 2.8% | 11% | B |
| 1,503 | Gulf Breeze FL | 7,067 | $104K | 6.0% | 7.8% | 13% | B |
| 1,504 | Delavan WI | 9,228 | $65K | 10.2% | 3.3% | 21% | B |
| 1,505 | Wayne Township OH | 9,371 | $86K | 9.3% | 5.8% | 9% | B |
| 1,506 | Allegheny Township PA | 8,134 | $80K | 9.7% | 4.2% | 6% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 2,841 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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.
The towns around Delavan
The biggest share goes to Darien (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Delavan workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delavan | – | B | B | 19 min | $65,357 |
| Darien | 3% | — | — | 19 min | — |
| Delavan Lake | under 2% | — | — | 28 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Darien: the same community as the village of that name, graded once. Delavan Lake: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. 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 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 Delavan: questions
What is the median household income in Delavan?
$65,357 (±$13,847) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Delavan?
10.2%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Delavan?
19 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Delavan work?
21% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Elkhorn (7%, 6 mi), Lake Geneva (5%, 11 mi), Madison (5%, 51 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Delavan walkable?
Delavan is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.0 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Delavan without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% 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), 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.