Photo: Willsome429 · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Gardner commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Gardner has 61 jobs; 580 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Gardner are B− for jobs and income and D for walkability. Only 1% work in Gardner; the top destination outside it is Sturgeon Bay (23%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Gardner, in brief
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Gardner
On income, poverty and job access, Gardner is better than 49% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Gardner’s grade up (4.8%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 24% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.8%) is left out: Gardner’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, Gardner could be anywhere from C to B+.
How a workday changes Gardner
On a workday 574 residents head out to work, 6 work right here, and 55 people come in from elsewhere.
About 710 people are in Gardner on a workday afternoon, 42% 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 Gardner’s working residents head each day
Where Gardner clocks in
23% of workers
11% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Gardner
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Gardner, 2013 → 2023: 265 → 61. 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 Gardner’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Gardner: 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 Gardner workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 539 commuters (the 10% 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.
Half of Gardner commutes less than 27 miles
About 25% 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.
Getting around Gardner: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Gardner is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Gardner 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 597 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). 0.0% of Gardner households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Gardner’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Gardner ranks: 1,716th of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 42 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,714 | Orange Township OH | 1,127 | $110K | 20.2% | 5.0% | 1% | B− |
| 1,715 | Orwell Township PA | 1,200 | $90K | 6.2% | 1.1% | 6% | B− |
| 1,716 | Gardner WI | 1,228 | $69K | 4.8% | 0.8% | 1% | B− |
| 1,717 | Woodland Park NE | 1,657 | $74K | 7.1% | 0.0% | 1% | B− |
| 1,718 | Bunker Hill IL | 1,593 | $76K | 10.5% | 5.0% | 9% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Gardner, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Work in the towns next to Gardner
The biggest share goes to Brussels (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Gardner workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gardner | – | B− | D | 24 min | $69,474 |
| Nasewaupee | 2% | B | B− | 18 min | $85,875 |
| Peshtigo | under 2% | B+ | C− | 17 min | $81,378 |
| Brussels | 3% | B+ | B | 26 min | $100,700 |
| Egg Harbor | under 2% | C | C+ | 21 min | $74,844 |
| Union | under 2% | — | — | 32 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Union: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Gardner’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 Gardner: questions
What is the median household income in Gardner?
$69,474 (±$19,132) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Gardner?
4.8%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Gardner?
24 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Gardner work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sturgeon Bay (23%, 11 mi), Green Bay (11%, 30 mi), Ashwaubenon (4%, 36 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Gardner walkable?
Gardner is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.9 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Gardner 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 Gardner, from the people who make the trip.
More of Gardner
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.