Photo: fafinney · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Frederic have lower incomes than those in 84% of U.S. towns
4% of workers work from home, next to 13% for Wisconsin as a whole. Below the poverty line: 16.0% of residents, next to 10.6% for Wisconsin as a whole. Frederic grades D for jobs and income and A− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Frederic in brief
A big share show a job far from home
34% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Frederic workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 27 minutes each way, against 22 across Wisconsin. Over a year that’s about 207 hours of commuting, 38 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Few Frederic workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 13% across Wisconsin. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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 561 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Frederic earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Frederic is better than 7% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Frederic’s grade.
Unemployment (1.6%) is left out: Frederic’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, Frederic could be anywhere from D− to C−.
Where in the region Frederic works
About 34% 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.
A commute of about 27 minutes in Frederic
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Frederic workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 498 commuters (the 4% 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 workday shuffle in and out of Frederic
On a workday 512 residents head out to work, 49 work right here, and 725 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Frederic on a workday afternoon, 19% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.38 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
6% of working residents work in St. Croix Falls
Where Frederic clocks in
4% 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.
What work there is in Frederic: 774 jobs
774 jobs are based in Frederic.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Frederic, 2013 → 2023: 704 → 774. 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 Frederic’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Frederic
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Frederic is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns. 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 7.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 520 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). 5.3% of Frederic households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Frederic’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500, Frederic comes 3,245th 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 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 19 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 44 | Big Bend WI | 1,498 | $135K | 3.2% | 0.6% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,243 | Kingston OH | 1,236 | $40K | 26.3% | 2.5% | 1% | D |
| 3,244 | Smethport PA | 1,359 | $60K | 19.2% | 6.8% | 21% | D |
| 3,245 | Frederic WI | 1,133 | $53K | 16.0% | 1.6% | 9% | D |
| 3,246 | Fort Ashby WV | 1,283 | $45K | 16.6% | 0.0% | 4% | D |
| 3,247 | Orwell OH | 1,499 | $42K | 27.4% | 6.7% | 7% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Frederic, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Next door to Frederic
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Frederic workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frederic | – | D | A− | 27 min | $52,800 |
| West Sweden | 4% | — | — | 29 min | — |
| Luck | under 2% | — | — | 28 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. West Sweden: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Luck: the same community as the village of that name, graded once. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to West Sweden. Darker towns draw more of Frederic’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 Frederic: questions
What is the median household income in Frederic?
$52,800 (±$6,645) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Frederic?
16.0%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Frederic?
27 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Frederic work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are St. Croix Falls (6%, 18 mi), Luck (5%, 5 mi), Siren (4%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Frederic walkable?
Frederic is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Frederic without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Frederic, from the people who make the trip.
More of Frederic
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.