Most of Delmar commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
19% of workers work from home, where Wisconsin as a whole has 13%. Employers in Delmar report 57 jobs; 353 of its residents have a job. Delmar grades C for jobs and income and B− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Delmar and work: the main findings
Delmar is a place people come home to
There are 57 jobs based in Delmar, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Delmar has about 730 people in it, 29% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Delmar’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Delmar is Eau Claire, 27 miles away as the crow flies. 12% of working residents (44) 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 353 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The four measures behind Delmar’s grade
On income, poverty and job access, Delmar is better than 27% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Delmar’s grade up ($73,929, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down.
Unemployment (1.7%) is left out: Delmar’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, Delmar could be anywhere from D to B.
A workday in Delmar: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 353 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 57 people come in from elsewhere.
About 730 people are in Delmar on a workday afternoon, 29% 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 Delmar
About 19% 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.
12% of working residents work in Eau Claire
Where Delmar clocks in
10% 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 jobs make up 81% of work in Delmar
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Delmar, 2013 → 2023: 36 → 57. 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 Delmar’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Delmar’s commute takes about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Delmar workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 444 commuters (the 19% 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.
Driving is how Delmar gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Delmar is more walkable than 47% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 4.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 550 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 Delmar households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Delmar’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Delmar ranks: 1,860th of 3,133 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,858 | Ecru MS | 1,113 | $65K | 16.1% | 14.8% | 9% | C |
| 1,859 | Sutherland NE | 1,225 | $73K | 9.8% | 5.6% | 11% | C |
| 1,860 | Delmar WI | 1,027 | $74K | 13.0% | 1.7% | 0% | C |
| 1,861 | Gilbert Creek WV | 1,061 | $83K | 11.7% | 0.0% | <1% | C |
| 1,862 | Baldwin FL | 1,394 | $48K | 16.3% | 8.9% | 1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Delmar, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
The towns next door employ 12% of Delmar
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Delmar workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delmar | – | C | B− | 24 min | $73,929 |
| Stanley | 12% | D | A | 26 min | $48,052 |
| Goetz | under 2% | — | — | 27 min | — |
| Thorp | under 2% | — | — | 15 min | — |
| Boyd | under 2% | — | — | 32 min | — |
| Edson | under 2% | C− | C+ | 30 min | $81,447 |
| Colburn | under 2% | — | — | 33 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Goetz and Boyd: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Thorp: the same community as the city of that name, graded once. Colburn: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Stanley. Darker towns draw more of Delmar’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 Delmar: questions
What is the median household income in Delmar?
$73,929 (±$27,957) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Delmar?
13.0%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Delmar?
24 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 19% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Delmar work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Eau Claire (12%, 27 mi), Stanley (12%, 3 mi), Chippewa Falls (10%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Delmar walkable?
Delmar is more walkable than 47% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 4.9 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Delmar without a car?
<1% 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 Delmar, from the people who make the trip.
More of Delmar
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.