Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 3.0Eagle River has 3.2 jobs for every working resident: 1,975 people commute in to work
The two grades for Eagle River are D for jobs and income and A for walkability. Eagle River has 2,162 jobs, and 686 of its residents work somewhere. Household incomes here are lower than in 81% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Eagle River: the gist
Eagle River has far more jobs than workers
Eagle River has 2,162 jobs, 3.2 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 3,200 people are in town, 86% more than the 1,700 who live here. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
36% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. 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 686 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Eagle River gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Eagle River is better than 10% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Eagle River’s grade up (14.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 10% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (4.9%) is left out: Eagle River’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, Eagle River could be anywhere from D− to C+.
A workday in Eagle River: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 499 residents head out to work and 187 work right here.
About 3,200 people are in Eagle River on a workday afternoon, 86% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Eagle River
About 36% 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.
Where the people who work in Eagle River live
Where Eagle River clocks in
7% of workers
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.
The kinds of work in Eagle River
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Eagle River, 2013 → 2023: 1,874 → 2,162. 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 Eagle River’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Eagle River takes about 18 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Eagle River workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 581 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.
Eagle River is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Eagle River is more walkable than 92% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 18.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 8.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 644 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). 16.1% of Eagle River households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Eagle River’s commuters take a bus or train.
4,810th of 5,760: where Eagle River ranks among U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 38 | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,808 | Halls TN | 2,035 | $44K | 16.6% | 4.3% | 11% | D |
| 4,809 | Long Beach WA | 1,769 | $53K | 13.1% | 3.3% | 26% | D |
| 4,810 | Eagle River WI | 1,715 | $55K | 14.4% | 4.9% | 27% | D |
| 4,811 | Cherokee NC | 2,059 | $56K | 21.3% | 1.6% | 37% | D |
| 4,812 | Earle AR | 1,721 | $32K | 36.2% | 16.9% | 8% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | 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 Eagle River, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Eagle River and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Lincoln (7%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Eagle River workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eagle River | – | D | A | 18 min | $55,179 |
| Lincoln | 7% | B− | A− | 21 min | $77,500 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Eagle River’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 Eagle River: questions
What is the median household income in Eagle River?
$55,179 (±$8,507) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Eagle River?
14.4%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Eagle River?
18 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Eagle River work?
27% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Rhinelander (7%, 22 mi), Lincoln (7%, 1 mi), Wausau (2%, 69 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Eagle River walkable?
Eagle River is more walkable than 92% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.8 out of 20, and 18% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Eagle River without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 16% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Eagle River, from the people who make the trip.
More of Eagle River
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.