Fremont has 0.5 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Only 5% stay in Fremont for work; outside it, Neillsville is the main destination (15%, 12 miles). 165 jobs are based in Fremont, and 323 of its residents work somewhere. For jobs and income Fremont is better than 30% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns (C).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Fremont: the gist
Why Fremont gets the Jobs & income grade it does
Household income holds Fremont’s grade up ($78,286, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 18% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (6.2%) is left out: Fremont’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, Fremont could be anywhere from C− to B−.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Fremont
About 31% 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.
Who commutes out of Fremont, and who commutes in
On a workday 306 residents head out to work, 17 work right here, and 148 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Fremont on a workday afternoon, 12% 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.
Where the trip to work from Fremont ends
Where Fremont 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.
Making and building: 67% of jobs based in Fremont
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fremont, 2013 → 2023: 103 → 165. 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 Fremont’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Fremont spends getting to work: about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fremont workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 556 commuters (the 12% 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.
Most of Fremont commutes by car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 2.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 631 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). 9.6% of Fremont households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Fremont’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Fremont ranks: 3,071st of 5,400 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,800
| # | 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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| 25 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 45 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 49 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,069 | Bridgewater NH | 1,185 | $82K | 11.9% | 3.6% | 5% | C |
| 3,070 | North Norwich NY | 1,645 | $78K | 12.3% | 3.1% | 2% | C |
| 3,071 | Fremont WI | 1,363 | $78K | 12.6% | 6.2% | 5% | C |
| 3,072 | Georgetown CO | 1,217 | $79K | 13.4% | 10.5% | 24% | C |
| 3,073 | Trappe MD | 1,517 | $61K | 9.3% | 9.0% | 2% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Fremont, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Fremont and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Lynn (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Fremont workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fremont | – | C | C | 21 min | $78,286 |
| Lincoln | under 2% | A− | C | 17 min | $106,607 |
| Lynn | 4% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Sherman | under 2% | — | — | 25 min | — |
| York | under 2% | — | — | 25 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Lynn: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Sherman and York: the same communities as the places of those names, graded once. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Fremont’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 Fremont: questions
What is the median household income in Fremont?
$78,286 (±$10,320) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fremont?
12.6%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fremont?
21 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fremont work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Neillsville (15%, 12 mi), Granton (6%, 6 mi), Loyal (4%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Fremont walkable?
Fremont is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 2.7 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Fremont without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fremont, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fremont
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.