California Wine and Liquor Store · Photo: Mdaams · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Fairchild works elsewhere
Employers in Fairchild report 52 jobs for 139 working residents. Only 1% stay in Fairchild for work; outside it, Eau Claire is the main destination (15%, 30 miles). The average commute takes 31 minutes each way, next to 22 for Wisconsin and 26 for the U.S.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Fairchild: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 137 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 50 people come in from elsewhere.
About 350 people are in Fairchild on a workday afternoon, 20% 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.
The places Fairchild commutes to
Where Fairchild clocks in
Lines 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.
What Fairchild’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fairchild, 2013 → 2023: 22 → 52. 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 Fairchild’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Fairchild: about 31 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fairchild workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 166 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.
How far Fairchild’s workers travel
About 30% 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.
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 Fairchild: questions
What is the median household income in Fairchild?
$48,750 (±$22,811) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fairchild?
16.2%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fairchild?
31 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fairchild work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Eau Claire (15%, 30 mi), Augusta (12%, 10 mi), Osseo (5%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Fairchild 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 Fairchild, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fairchild
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.