Most of Dickeyville commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
For jobs and income Dickeyville is better than 61% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 20% of U.S. towns (C−). Dickeyville has 289 jobs, and 528 of its residents work somewhere. Only 3% work in Dickeyville; the top destination outside it is Dubuque (20%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Dickeyville, in brief
What’s behind Dickeyville’s Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Dickeyville’s grade up (5.3%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($70,913, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (0.2%) is left out: Dickeyville’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, Dickeyville could be anywhere from B− to B+.
Where Dickeyville’s working residents head each day
Where Dickeyville clocks in
20% of workers
12% 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 workday shuffle in and out of Dickeyville
On a workday 513 residents head out to work, 15 work right here, and 274 people come in from elsewhere.
About 850 people are in Dickeyville on a workday afternoon, 22% 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.
The kinds of work in Dickeyville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dickeyville, 2014 → 2024: 148 → 289. 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 Dickeyville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Dickeyville spends getting to work: about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dickeyville workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 443 commuters (the 10% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Dickeyville
About 25% 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.
Driving is how Dickeyville gets around
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 4.8% across Wisconsin.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 490 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). 1.9% of Dickeyville households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Dickeyville’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Dickeyville is 866th of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 2% | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 864 | Cleveland AL | 1,262 | $71K | 4.0% | 5.6% | 4% | B |
| 865 | Elgin MN | 1,137 | $92K | 7.6% | 5.2% | 2% | B |
| 866 | Dickeyville WI | 1,085 | $71K | 5.3% | 0.2% | 3% | B |
| 867 | Ashkum Township IL | 1,381 | $90K | 4.0% | 1.5% | 5% | B |
| 868 | Great Bend Township KS | 1,397 | $103K | 6.2% | 0.0% | 6% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Dickeyville, 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 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 Dickeyville: questions
What is the median household income in Dickeyville?
$70,913 (±$7,210) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dickeyville?
5.3%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dickeyville?
19 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dickeyville work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dubuque (20%, 10 mi), Platteville (12%, 10 mi), Cuba City (5%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Dickeyville walkable?
Dickeyville is more walkable than 20% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Dickeyville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dickeyville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dickeyville
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.