Downsville Lodge No. 1961 I.O.O.F. · Photo: Jeff the quiet · CC0Most of Dunn commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
Employers in Dunn report 150 jobs for 719 working residents. For jobs and income Dunn is better than 27% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns (C). Hardly any stay in Dunn for work; outside it, Menomonie is the main destination (26%, 10 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 Dunn
Dunn and Menomonie trade workers both ways
Menomonie is the top workplace for Dunn residents (26%) and also where the most people who work in Dunn come from (17% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Dunn is a place people come home to
There are 150 jobs based in Dunn, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Dunn has about 910 people in it, 39% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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 719 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Dunn: the grade in detail
Household income holds Dunn’s grade up ($74,732, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 21% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (9.0%) is left out: Dunn’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, Dunn could be anywhere from D to B−.
The towns that employ Dunn’s residents
Where Dunn clocks in
2% 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 leaves Dunn for work, and who comes in
On a workday 717 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 148 people come in from elsewhere.
About 910 people are in Dunn on a workday afternoon, 39% 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.
Goods jobs make up 34% of work in Dunn
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dunn, 2013 → 2023: 168 → 150. 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 Dunn’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 26 minutes each way for Dunn’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dunn workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 659 commuters (the 12% 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.
How far Dunn’s workers travel
About 24% 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.
Dunn is a driving town
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 4.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 748 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). 0.7% of Dunn households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Dunn’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 6,308 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000, Dunn comes 3,819th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 50 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 55 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,817 | Sperry OK | 1,241 | $50K | 17.7% | 5.1% | 4% | C |
| 3,818 | Cherry Township PA | 1,041 | $73K | 11.2% | 5.9% | 9% | C |
| 3,819 | Dunn WI | 1,477 | $75K | 13.4% | 9.0% | <1% | C |
| 3,820 | Boulder Junction WI | 1,075 | $75K | 9.7% | 2.2% | 7% | C |
| 3,821 | Strawberry AZ | 1,094 | $60K | 5.7% | 0.0% | 2% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | 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 Dunn, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Work in the towns next to Dunn
The biggest share goes to Menomonie (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Dunn workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dunn | – | C | C | 26 min | $74,732 |
| Peru | under 2% | — | — | 36 min | — |
| Weston | under 2% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Spring Brook | under 2% | B | D | 27 min | $95,563 |
| Waubeek | under 2% | — | — | 21 min | — |
| Menomonie | 2% | A | C | 25 min | $93,225 |
| Red Cedar | under 2% | A− | C− | 23 min | $100,000 |
Same-state neighbors only. Peru and Waubeek: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Weston: 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 Dunn’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 Dunn: questions
What is the median household income in Dunn?
$74,732 (±$11,910) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dunn?
13.4%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dunn?
26 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dunn work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Menomonie (26%, 10 mi), Eau Claire (12%, 21 mi), St. Paul (2%, 60 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Dunn walkable?
Dunn is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Dunn without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dunn, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dunn
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.