Photo: Corey Coyle · CC BY 3.0Most of Excelsior commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
107 jobs are based in Excelsior for 727 working residents. Excelsior grades B for jobs and income and D− for walkability. Working from home is the commute for 5% of workers, next to 13% for Wisconsin as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Excelsior apart
Excelsior is a place people come home to
There are 107 jobs based in Excelsior, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Excelsior has about 1,000 people in it, 38% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Excelsior and Reedsburg trade workers both ways
Reedsburg is the top workplace for Excelsior residents (18%) and also where the most people who work in Excelsior come from (15% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
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 727 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Excelsior: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Excelsior is better than 60% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Excelsior’s grade up ($92,083, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 39% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (2.0%) is left out: Excelsior’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, Excelsior could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
The daily commute in and out of Excelsior
On a workday 722 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 102 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Excelsior on a workday afternoon, 38% 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.
18% of working residents work in Reedsburg
Where Excelsior clocks in
18% of workers
10% 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.
A place that makes things: 74% of Excelsior’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Excelsior, 2013 → 2023: 126 → 107. 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 Excelsior’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Excelsior’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 Excelsior workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 874 commuters (the 5% 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.
Where in the region Excelsior works
About 21% 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.
Excelsior is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Excelsior is near the bottom of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Excelsior 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 920 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). 0.5% of Excelsior households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Excelsior’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Excelsior is 1,719th among 6,161 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200
| # | 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% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 43 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 48 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,717 | Valley Township KS | 1,326 | $90K | 8.3% | 7.3% | 1% | B |
| 1,718 | Elba NY | 2,135 | $92K | 8.2% | 4.3% | 4% | B |
| 1,719 | Excelsior WI | 1,616 | $92K | 8.4% | 2.0% | 1% | B |
| 1,720 | Stryker OH | 1,239 | $73K | 4.7% | 2.0% | 5% | B |
| 1,721 | South Bloomfield Township OH | 1,913 | $87K | 8.2% | 3.5% | 3% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | 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 Excelsior, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
How Excelsior compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Delton (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Excelsior workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Excelsior | – | B | D− | 21 min | $92,083 |
| North Freedom | under 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Dellona | 2% | B | B− | 27 min | $103,043 |
| Baraboo | under 2% | B+ | B− | 18 min | $100,909 |
| Delton | 3% | B+ | C+ | 22 min | $87,299 |
| Reedsburg | under 2% | B | C | 20 min | $92,961 |
| Freedom | under 2% | — | — | 27 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. North Freedom: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Freedom: the same community as the town of that name, graded once. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Excelsior’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 Excelsior: questions
What is the median household income in Excelsior?
$92,083 (±$16,553) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Excelsior?
8.4%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Excelsior?
21 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Excelsior work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Reedsburg (18%, 6 mi), Madison (10%, 38 mi), Baraboo (9%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Excelsior walkable?
Excelsior is near the bottom of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Excelsior without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Excelsior, from the people who make the trip.
More of Excelsior
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.