Edgar Village Hall · Photo: Tgkrause · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.6 jobs for every working resident, most of Edgar works elsewhere
Only 5% work in Edgar; the top destination outside it is Wausau (26%, 16 miles). Employers in Edgar report 431 jobs; 754 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Edgar is better than 37% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 72% of U.S. towns (B+).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Edgar
How Edgar earns its Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Edgar’s grade up (9.7%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($63,482, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (1.9%) is left out: Edgar’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, Edgar could be anywhere from C− to B.
The places Edgar commutes to
Where Edgar clocks in
26% of workers
14% 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.
Edgar by day and by night
On a workday 719 residents head out to work, 35 work right here, and 396 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Edgar on a workday afternoon, 23% 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 31% of work in Edgar
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Edgar, 2013 → 2023: 276 → 431. 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 Edgar’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Edgar, about 24 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Edgar workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 654 commuters (the 11% 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.
The commute from Edgar, by distance
About 20% 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.
Most trips from Edgar start in a car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 7.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 737 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). 2.6% of Edgar households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Edgar’s commuters take a bus or train.
2,847th of 5,877: where Edgar ranks among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 50 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,845 | Townshend VT | 1,259 | $79K | 8.1% | 1.8% | 11% | C+ |
| 2,846 | Rock Hall MD | 1,208 | $75K | 7.6% | 1.3% | 17% | C+ |
| 2,847 | Edgar WI | 1,425 | $63K | 9.7% | 1.9% | 5% | C+ |
| 2,848 | Oak Grove WI | 1,020 | $76K | 16.6% | 1.8% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,849 | Warren IL | 1,275 | $76K | 9.9% | 2.7% | 11% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | 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 Edgar, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Next door to Edgar
The biggest share goes to Cassel (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Edgar workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edgar | – | C+ | B+ | 24 min | $63,482 |
| Cassel | 2% | — | — | 20 min | — |
| Wien | under 2% | — | — | 23 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Cassel: not graded. Wien: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Edgar’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 Edgar: questions
What is the median household income in Edgar?
$63,482 (±$16,094) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Edgar?
9.7%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Edgar?
24 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Edgar work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wausau (26%, 16 mi), Marathon City (14%, 6 mi), Marshfield (5%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Edgar walkable?
Edgar is more walkable than 72% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.0 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Edgar without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Edgar, from the people who make the trip.
More of Edgar
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.