Grant has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Only 1% work in Grant; the top destination outside it is Stevens Point (24%, 15 miles). Employers in Grant report 136 jobs for 817 working residents. Jobs and income earn Grant B; getting around on foot earns it D.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Grant, in a few figures
Jobs & income in Grant: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Grant is better than 64% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Grant’s grade up (4.8%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 29% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (1.5%) is left out: Grant’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, Grant could be anywhere from B− to B+.
Grant on a workday afternoon
On a workday 808 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 127 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Grant on a workday afternoon, 37% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where Grant goes to work
Where Grant 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.
The kinds of work in Grant
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Grant, 2014 → 2024: 107 → 136. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Grant’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Grant: about 24 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Grant workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 851 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Grant
About 29% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Grant, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Grant is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 4.8% across Wisconsin.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 941 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). 1.1% of Grant households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Grant’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,656 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500, Grant comes 1,454th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 37 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 43 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| 44 | North Prairie WI | 2,193 | $153K | 2.8% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,452 | South Rockwood MI | 1,576 | $78K | 11.5% | 3.8% | 1% | B |
| 1,453 | Gill MA | 1,551 | $90K | 5.8% | 6.3% | 8% | B |
| 1,454 | Grant WI | 1,849 | $89K | 4.8% | 1.5% | 1% | B |
| 1,455 | Inez TX | 2,031 | $83K | 5.7% | 2.0% | 3% | B |
| 1,456 | Prince's Lakes IN | 1,384 | $89K | 6.8% | 1.7% | <1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 Grant, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Grant and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Grand Rapids (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Grant workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grant | – | B | D | 24 min | $89,167 |
| Plover | 1% | B+ | C+ | 16 min | $90,481 |
| Saratoga | under 2% | B− | D | 31 min | $74,499 |
| Grand Rapids | 2% | B+ | D | 24 min | $96,658 |
| Pine Grove | under 2% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Lake Wazeecha | under 2% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Leola | under 2% | — | — | 40 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Pine Grove: not graded. Lake Wazeecha: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Leola: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Grant’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 2024, 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 Grant: questions
What is the median household income in Grant?
$89,167 (±$7,572) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Grant?
4.8%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Grant?
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 Grant work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Stevens Point (24%, 15 mi), Wisconsin Rapids (12%, 9 mi), Plover (10%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Grant walkable?
Grant is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.5 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Grant without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Grant, from the people who make the trip.
More of Grant
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.