Durand Free Library · Photo: Jon Roanhaus · CC BY-SA 3.0Households in Durand earn less than those in 76% of U.S. towns
Durand grades C− for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. 13.5% of residents are in poverty, next to 10.6% for Wisconsin as a whole. About one in seven work in Durand itself; outside it, Eau Claire draws the most (12%, 27 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Durand, in brief
What’s behind Durand’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Durand is better than 19% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Durand’s grade.
Unemployment (4.6%) is left out: Durand’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, Durand could be anywhere from D to C+.
Where in the region Durand works
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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
The daily commute in and out of Durand
On a workday 683 residents head out to work, 134 work right here, and 874 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,000 people are in Durand on a workday afternoon, 10% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.23 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.
Where people from Durand work
Where Durand clocks in
Lines 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.
Inside Durand’s 1,008 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Durand, 2013 → 2023: 891 → 1,008. 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 Durand’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 20 minutes from Durand
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Durand workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 664 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.
In Durand, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Durand is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Durand near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 819 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). 2.5% of Durand households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Durand’s commuters take a bus or train.
Durand is 4,124th of 5,656 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 37 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 43 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 44 | North Prairie WI | 2,193 | $153K | 2.8% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,122 | Capac MI | 1,943 | $60K | 12.5% | 9.0% | 6% | C− |
| 4,123 | Mitchell NE | 1,513 | $54K | 11.1% | 3.9% | 11% | C− |
| 4,124 | Durand WI | 1,854 | $59K | 13.5% | 4.6% | 16% | C− |
| 4,125 | Webber Township IL | 2,095 | $59K | 13.4% | 5.4% | 3% | C− |
| 4,126 | Pleasant Run Township IN | 1,745 | $77K | 17.3% | 6.8% | <1% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Durand, 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 Durand: questions
What is the median household income in Durand?
$58,820 (±$2,880) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Durand?
13.5%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Durand?
20 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 19% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Durand work?
16% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Eau Claire (12%, 27 mi), Menomonie (8%, 19 mi), Lima (5%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Durand walkable?
Durand is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 8.4 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Durand 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 Durand, from the people who make the trip.
More of Durand
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.