Photo: Doremo · CC BY-SA 4.0Gillett has 0.7 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Jobs & income C−: better than 23% of U.S. towns on income, poverty and job access.
Walkability B: more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns.
Household incomes here are lower than in 81% of U.S. towns. Working residents average 25 minutes each way (Wisconsin 22, U.S. 26). About one in ten work in Gillett; the top destination outside it is Green Bay (9%, 30 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Gillett, in brief
Gillett’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Gillett is Green Bay, 30 miles away as the crow flies. 9% of working residents (48) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Gillett than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Gillett fell from 601 in 2013 to 389 in 2023, −35%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Many jobs in Gillett pay little
27% of the jobs based in Gillett pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. 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 552 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Gillett’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Gillett is better than 23% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Gillett’s grade up (11.5%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($54,844, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (5.2%) is left out: Gillett’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, Gillett could be anywhere from D to C+.
Half of Gillett commutes less than 28 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 21% 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.
What the 389 jobs in Gillett are
389 jobs are based in Gillett. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Gillett’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Gillett, 2013 → 2023: 601 → 389. 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.
Gillett quiets down on a workday
On a workday 507 residents head out to work, 45 work right here, and 344 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Gillett on a workday afternoon, 13% fewer than live here.
0.70 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
9% of working residents work in Green Bay
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Gillett clocks in
9% of workers
6% of workers
4% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
About 25 minutes each way, longer than most of Wisconsin
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Gillett workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 477 commuters (the 15% who work from home are left out). Across Wisconsin: 86% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
Most trips from Gillett start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Gillett is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 6.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 558 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). 11.0% of Gillett households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Gillett’s commuters take a bus or train.
Gillett is 3,178th of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Gillett, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,176 | Cambridge NE | 1,066 | $62K | 7.9% | 0.0% | 15% | C− |
| 3,177 | Forest OH | 1,332 | $56K | 11.5% | 2.5% | 9% | C− |
| 3,178 | Gillett WI | 1,276 | $55K | 11.5% | 5.2% | 8% | C− |
| 3,179 | Franklin NY | 1,139 | $88K | 16.8% | 3.2% | 2% | C− |
| 3,180 | McCalmont Township PA | 1,103 | $67K | 14.6% | 6.8% | 2% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 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.
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 Gillett: questions
What is the median household income in Gillett?
$54,844 (±$12,935) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Gillett?
11.5%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Gillett?
25 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Gillett work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Green Bay (9%, 30 mi), Oconto Falls (6%, 8 mi), Shawano (4%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Gillett walkable?
Gillett is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.0 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Gillett without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Gillett, from the people who make the trip.
More of Gillett
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.