Gunning-Purves Building · Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 3.0Friendship draws 817 commuters a day, with 3.8 jobs for every working resident
845 jobs are based in Friendship, and 221 of its residents work somewhere. About one in seven stay in Friendship for work; outside it, Adams is the main destination (16%, 1 miles). The average commute takes 24 minutes each way, where Wisconsin has 22 and the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Friendship: the figures worth knowing
Friendship has far more jobs than workers
Friendship has 845 jobs, 3.8 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 1,300 people are in town, 91% more than the 680 who live here. Day and night ↓
Friendship and Adams trade workers both ways
Adams is the top workplace for Friendship residents (16%) and also where the most people who work in Friendship come from (12% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
The jobs in Friendship pay better than its residents’ jobs
69% of the jobs based in Friendship pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 50% of the jobs Friendship residents hold. 97% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Friendship. The jobs ↓
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 221 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How a workday changes Friendship
On a workday 193 residents head out to work and 28 work right here.
About 1,300 people are in Friendship on a workday afternoon, 91% more 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 towns that send workers to Friendship
Where Friendship clocks in
16% of workers
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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Friendship
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Friendship, 2013 → 2023: 665 → 845. 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 Friendship’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Friendship: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Friendship workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 288 commuters (the 13% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Friendship
About 27% 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 Friendship: questions
What is the median household income in Friendship?
$48,631 (±$10,096) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Friendship?
34.9%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Friendship?
24 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Friendship work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Adams (16%, 1 mi), Westfield (5%, 16 mi), Adams (4%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Friendship without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Friendship, from the people who make the trip.
More of Friendship
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.