Photo: Corey Coyle · CC BY 3.0Dodgeville draws 4,116 commuters a day, with 2.0 jobs for every working resident
There are 4,865 jobs in Dodgeville for 2,412 working residents. Dodgeville grades C+ for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. About one in three work in Dodgeville itself; outside it, Madison draws the most (15%, 36 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Dodgeville, in a few figures
Stores, warehouses and trucking
61% of the jobs in Dodgeville are in trade, transport and utilities, against 28% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Dodgeville is where the jobs are
Dodgeville has 4,865 jobs, 2.0 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 7,500 people are in town, 48% more than the 5,100 who live here. Day and night ↓
Dodgeville’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Dodgeville is Madison, 36 miles away as the crow flies. 15% of working residents (353) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Dodgeville workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 30 minutes each way, against 22 across Wisconsin. Over a year that’s about 230 hours of commuting, 61 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 2023, 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 Dodgeville: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Dodgeville is better than 43% of U.S. towns, #311 of 362 in Wisconsin. The poverty rate holds Dodgeville’s grade up (6.3%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (6.6%, U.S. 5.2%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Dodgeville could be anywhere from C− to A−.
What Dodgeville’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dodgeville, 2013 → 2023: 5,281 → 4,865. 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 Dodgeville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In and out of Dodgeville on a workday
On a workday 1,663 residents head out to work and 749 work right here.
About 7,500 people are in Dodgeville on a workday afternoon, 48% more 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.
How many miles Dodgeville commutes
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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Dodgeville’s commute takes about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dodgeville workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,274 commuters (the 16% 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.
Who travels to work in Dodgeville, and from where
Where Dodgeville clocks in
15% of workers
4% of workers
3% 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.
In Dodgeville, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Dodgeville is more walkable than 65% of U.S. towns, #117 of 362 in Wisconsin. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 6.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,693 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). 9.5% of Dodgeville households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of Dodgeville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Dodgeville next to U.S. towns of 3,600 to 6,900: 2,229th of 3,627 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | 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+ |
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| 23 | Fox Point WI | 6,583 | $141K | 2.5% | 0.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 35 | Elm Grove WI | 6,354 | $158K | 4.4% | 0.7% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 54 | Ottawa WI | 3,642 | $153K | 1.0% | 1.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,227 | Monroe Township IN | 5,408 | $74K | 10.6% | 4.6% | 24% | C+ |
| 2,228 | Summerside OH | 4,662 | $71K | 17.1% | 5.2% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,229 | Dodgeville WI | 5,076 | $72K | 6.3% | 6.6% | 31% | C+ |
| 2,230 | Milford Township OH | 3,634 | $84K | 11.5% | 6.3% | 5% | C+ |
| 2,231 | Newport Township PA | 4,518 | $58K | 17.4% | 1.9% | 4% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,627 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Dodgeville, 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 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 Dodgeville: questions
What is the median household income in Dodgeville?
$72,288 (±$8,563) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dodgeville?
6.3%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dodgeville?
30 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dodgeville work?
31% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Madison (15%, 36 mi), Mineral Point (4%, 8 mi), Dodgeville (3%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Dodgeville walkable?
Dodgeville is more walkable than 65% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Dodgeville without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dodgeville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dodgeville
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.