Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 3.0Green Lake has 1.8 jobs for every working resident: 764 people commute in to work
The two grades for Green Lake are C for jobs and income and A for walkability. 813 jobs are based in Green Lake for 442 working residents. Household incomes here are lower than in 80% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Green Lake, in a few figures
Green Lake is where the jobs are
Green Lake has 813 jobs, 1.8 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Green Lake and Ripon trade workers both ways
Ripon is the top workplace for Green Lake residents (16%) and also where the most people who work in Green Lake come from (14% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A lot of Green Lake works from home
21% of Green Lake workers work from home, against 13% across Wisconsin. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 442 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Green Lake earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Green Lake is better than 27% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Green Lake’s grade up (ahead of 41% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($55,970, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (4.0%) is left out: Green Lake’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, Green Lake could be anywhere from C− to C+.
Who works in Green Lake, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 393 residents head out to work and 49 work right here.
About 1,400 people are in Green Lake on a workday afternoon, 36% 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 2024, primary jobs.
The towns that send workers to Green Lake
Where Green Lake clocks in
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.
Getting to work from Green Lake takes about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Green Lake workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 380 commuters (the 21% 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.
The kinds of work in Green Lake
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Green Lake, 2014 → 2024: 856 → 813. 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 Green Lake’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Green Lake’s workers travel
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Green Lake is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Green Lake is more walkable than 92% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 18.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 8.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 482 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). 13.1% of Green Lake households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Green Lake’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400, Green Lake ranks 1,845th of 3,133 on jobs and income
| # | 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 17 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 67 | Kaukauna WI | 1,295 | $122K | 2.0% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,843 | Asotin WA | 1,187 | $77K | 10.2% | 3.8% | 7% | C |
| 1,844 | Granville WV | 1,362 | $32K | 45.8% | 11.0% | 3% | C |
| 1,845 | Green Lake WI | 1,040 | $56K | 11.6% | 4.0% | 11% | C |
| 1,846 | Bath NH | 1,112 | $68K | 8.1% | 3.9% | 2% | C |
| 1,847 | McGill NV | 1,050 | $57K | 5.0% | 6.9% | 3% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Green Lake, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
How Green Lake compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Brooklyn (4%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Green Lake workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green Lake | – | C | A | 21 min | $55,970 |
| Brooklyn | 4% | A− | C+ | 24 min | $108,167 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Green Lake’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 Green Lake: questions
What is the median household income in Green Lake?
$55,970 (±$1,891) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Green Lake?
11.6%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Green Lake?
21 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 21% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Green Lake work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ripon (16%, 6 mi), Fond du Lac (4%, 26 mi), Brooklyn (4%, 1 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Green Lake walkable?
Green Lake is more walkable than 92% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.6 out of 20, and 18% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Green Lake without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 13% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Green Lake, from the people who make the trip.
More of Green Lake
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.