Sheboygan Light, Power and Railway Company Car #26 · Photo: Boscophotos · CC BY-SA 4.0East Troy has lower unemployment (1.9%) than 86% of U.S. towns
The trip to work takes 24 minutes on average (Wisconsin 22, U.S. 26). Jobs and income earn East Troy A−; getting around on foot earns it A−. About one in ten stay in East Troy for work; outside it, Mukwonago is the main destination (7%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in East Troy
No single place dominates East Troy’s commute
The biggest draw, Mukwonago, gets only 7% of working residents, and 53% work outside the top ten towns entirely. East Troy residents fan out across the region. The commute map ↓
East Troy makes and builds things
39% of the jobs based in East Troy are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs East Troy residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 27%. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
What’s behind East Troy’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, East Troy is better than 76% of U.S. towns, #187 of 362 in Wisconsin. Unemployment holds East Troy’s grade up; the poverty rate pulls it down (10.2%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, East Troy could be anywhere from B to A.
Where East Troy goes to work
Where East Troy clocks in
6% of workers
4% 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 East Troy, 39% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
1,769 jobs are based in East Troy.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in East Troy, 2014 → 2024: 1,841 → 1,769. 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 East Troy’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In and out of East Troy on a workday
On a workday 2,303 residents head out to work, 257 work right here, and 1,512 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,200 people are in East Troy on a workday afternoon, 16% fewer than live here.
0.69 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Commuting from East Troy: about 24 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of East Troy workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,351 commuters (the 14% 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.
East Troy’s commute, mile by mile
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.
In East Troy, walking beats the bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, East Troy is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns, #79 of 362 in Wisconsin. Both inputs place East Troy 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 2,731 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). 8.1% of East Troy households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of East Troy’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 3,500 to 6,700, East Troy ranks 935th of 3,692 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
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| 23 | Fox Point WI | 6,583 | $141K | 2.5% | 0.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Elm Grove WI | 6,354 | $158K | 4.4% | 0.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 52 | Ottawa WI | 3,642 | $153K | 1.0% | 1.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 933 | Delanco Township NJ | 5,010 | $79K | 3.3% | 5.5% | 3% | A− |
| 934 | Verona VA | 4,165 | $74K | 5.6% | 1.7% | 12% | A− |
| 935 | East Troy WI | 4,988 | $80K | 10.2% | 1.9% | 10% | A− |
| 936 | Danville NH | 4,650 | $115K | 12.1% | 1.6% | 3% | A− |
| 937 | Tuscarawas Township OH | 5,844 | $87K | 10.0% | 2.1% | 5% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,692 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | 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 East Troy, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
East Troy and its neighbors
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of East Troy’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 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 East Troy: questions
What is the median household income in East Troy?
$79,669 (±$10,187) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in East Troy?
10.2%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from East Troy?
24 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in East Troy work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mukwonago (7%, 6 mi), Waukesha (6%, 17 mi), New Berlin (4%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is East Troy walkable?
East Troy is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.7 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around East Troy without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from East Troy, from the people who make the trip.
More of East Troy
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.