Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 3.0Jobs and the daily commute in Egg Harbor
Only 8% stay in Egg Harbor for work; outside it, Sturgeon Bay is the main destination (17%, 10 miles). For jobs and income Egg Harbor is better than 33% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns (C+). Commuters spend 21 minutes getting to work on average, where Wisconsin has 22 and the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Egg Harbor
Egg Harbor and Sturgeon Bay trade workers both ways
Sturgeon Bay is the top workplace for Egg Harbor residents (17%) and also where the most people who work in Egg Harbor come from (22% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Egg Harbor makes and builds things
36% of the jobs based in Egg Harbor are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Egg Harbor residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 20%. 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; with 505 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Egg Harbor’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
The poverty rate holds Egg Harbor’s grade up (8.9%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 10% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (2.0%) is left out: Egg Harbor’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Egg Harbor could be anywhere from D to B.
Out of Egg Harbor to work: where people go
Where Egg Harbor clocks in
17% of workers
9% of workers
9% 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.
Egg Harbor makes things: 36% of its jobs are in goods
398 jobs are based in Egg Harbor.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Egg Harbor, 2014 → 2024: 267 → 398. 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 Egg Harbor’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves Egg Harbor for work, and who comes in
On a workday 465 residents head out to work, 40 work right here, and 358 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.79 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Egg Harbor’s commute takes about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Egg Harbor workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 550 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.
Half of Egg Harbor commutes less than 14 miles
About 28% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Most of Egg Harbor commutes by car
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 4.8% across Wisconsin.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 636 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). 4.0% of Egg Harbor households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Egg Harbor’s commuters take a bus or train.
Egg Harbor next to U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100: 3,167th of 5,794 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 42 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 47 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,165 | Brady Township PA | 1,899 | $67K | 9.6% | 7.0% | 3% | C |
| 3,166 | Rockdale Township PA | 1,356 | $71K | 10.4% | 4.1% | 1% | C |
| 3,167 | Egg Harbor WI | 1,562 | $75K | 8.9% | 2.0% | 8% | C |
| 3,168 | Cresson PA | 1,465 | $56K | 10.6% | 7.0% | 7% | C |
| 3,169 | New Johnsonville TN | 1,849 | $79K | 10.9% | 3.6% | 14% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 Egg Harbor, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Next door is work for 21% of Egg Harbor
The biggest share goes to Gibraltar (9%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Egg Harbor workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Egg Harbor | – | C | C+ | 21 min | $74,844 |
| Jacksonport | under 2% | — | — | 21 min | — |
| Gibraltar | 9% | B | B− | 16 min | $103,984 |
| Gardner | under 2% | B− | D | 24 min | $69,474 |
| Peshtigo | under 2% | B+ | C− | 17 min | $81,378 |
| Sevastopol | 3% | B | C+ | 14 min | $88,750 |
| Baileys Harbor | 9% | C | B+ | 15 min | $73,514 |
Same-state neighbors only. Jacksonport: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Egg Harbor’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 Egg Harbor: questions
What is the median household income in Egg Harbor?
$74,844 (±$17,910) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Egg Harbor?
8.9%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Egg Harbor?
21 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Egg Harbor work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sturgeon Bay (17%, 10 mi), Gibraltar (9%, 14 mi), Baileys Harbor (9%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Egg Harbor walkable?
Egg Harbor is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.5 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Egg Harbor without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Egg Harbor, from the people who make the trip.
More of Egg Harbor
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.