Edgerton Post Office · Photo: TheCatalyst31 · CC0Jobs and the daily commute in Edgerton
About one in seven work in Edgerton itself; outside it, Janesville draws the most (15%, 11 miles). For jobs and income Edgerton is better than 60% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 67% of U.S. towns (B+). The average commute takes 26 minutes each way, where Wisconsin has 22 and the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Edgerton
Where Edgerton’s Jobs & income grade comes from
Job access by car holds Edgerton’s grade up (ahead of 70% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($72,489, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Edgerton could be anywhere from C to A.
Where Edgerton’s working residents head each day
Where Edgerton clocks in
15% of workers
12% of workers
5% 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.
Edgerton on a workday afternoon
On a workday 2,045 residents head out to work, 342 work right here, and 1,370 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,400 people are in Edgerton on a workday afternoon, 11% fewer than live here.
0.72 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 2023, primary jobs.
Inside Edgerton’s 1,712 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Edgerton, 2013 → 2023: 1,985 → 1,712. 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 Edgerton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Edgerton: about 26 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Edgerton workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,305 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.
The distance from Edgerton to work
About 16% 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 of Edgerton commutes by car
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,681 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 14.1% of Edgerton households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Edgerton’s commuters take a bus or train.
Edgerton places 1,542nd of 3,370 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 4,300 to 8,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 18 | Fox Point WI | 6,583 | $141K | 2.5% | 0.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Elm Grove WI | 6,354 | $158K | 4.4% | 0.7% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 61 | Bristol WI | 4,347 | $141K | 1.2% | 0.8% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,540 | Hampton Township NJ | 4,989 | $110K | 6.2% | 6.8% | 7% | B |
| 1,541 | Richwood TX | 4,777 | $88K | 3.4% | 8.4% | 2% | B |
| 1,542 | Edgerton WI | 6,121 | $72K | 8.6% | 4.1% | 14% | B |
| 1,543 | Old Lycoming Township PA | 4,924 | $63K | 11.5% | 0.3% | 5% | B |
| 1,544 | West Miami FL | 7,125 | $61K | 12.9% | 2.0% | 3% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,370 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Edgerton, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Work in the towns next to Edgerton
The biggest share goes to Fulton (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Edgerton’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 Edgerton: questions
What is the median household income in Edgerton?
$72,489 (±$10,657) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Edgerton?
8.6%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Edgerton?
26 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Edgerton work?
14% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Janesville (15%, 11 mi), Madison (12%, 25 mi), Stoughton (5%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Edgerton walkable?
Edgerton is more walkable than 67% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.6 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Edgerton without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Edgerton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Edgerton
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.