Photo: Skye Marthaler · CC BY-SA 4.0Gilman draws 320 commuters a day, with 2.4 jobs for every working resident
About one in seven work in Gilman itself; outside it, Medford draws the most (7%, 23 miles). There are 341 jobs in Gilman for 143 working residents. Home is the office for 5% of workers, next to 13% for Wisconsin as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in Gilman by day
On a workday 122 residents head out to work and 21 work right here.
About 580 people are in Gilman on a workday afternoon, 52% 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 daily trip into Gilman
Where Gilman 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.
In Gilman, 48% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Gilman, 2013 → 2023: 236 → 341. 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 Gilman’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 25 minutes in Gilman
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Gilman workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 159 commuters (the 5% 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.
How far it is to work from Gilman
About 24% 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.
Around Gilman: the bordering towns
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Gilman workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gilman | – | — | — | 25 min | $53,929 |
| Aurora | under 3% | — | — | 38 min | — |
| Ford | under 3% | — | — | 32 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Aurora: the same community as the town of that name, graded once. Ford: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Gilman’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 Gilman: questions
What is the median household income in Gilman?
$53,929 (±$9,211) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Gilman?
13.3%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Gilman?
25 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Gilman work?
15% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Medford (7%, 23 mi), Eau Claire (6%, 41 mi), Maplehurst (5%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Gilman without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Gilman, from the people who make the trip.
More of Gilman
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.