Sylvanus Wade House · Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 3.0Households in Greenbush earn more than those in 65% of U.S. towns
Only 2% work in Greenbush itself; outside it, Plymouth draws the most (14%, 7 miles). 1.9% of residents live below the poverty line, next to 10.6% for Wisconsin as a whole. Jobs and income earn Greenbush A−; getting around on foot earns it D.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Greenbush: the gist
How Greenbush earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Greenbush is better than 79% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Greenbush’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 47% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (1.4%) is left out: Greenbush’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, Greenbush could be anywhere from B+ to A−.
In Greenbush, services account for most jobs
516 jobs are based in Greenbush.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Greenbush, 2013 → 2023: 575 → 516. 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 Greenbush’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who works in Greenbush, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 687 residents head out to work, 17 work right here, and 499 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
0.73 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.
Where the trip to work from Greenbush ends
Where Greenbush clocks in
14% of workers
11% of workers
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.
The trip to work from Greenbush: about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Greenbush workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 646 commuters (the 16% 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.
Miles to work from Greenbush
About 17% 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.
The commute in Greenbush is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Greenbush is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 0.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 3.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 769 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). 0.4% of Greenbush households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Greenbush’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Greenbush ranks: 758th of 5,102 U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,000
| # | 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% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 33 | North Prairie WI | 2,193 | $153K | 2.8% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 48 | Vandenbroek WI | 1,701 | $129K | 1.6% | 5.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 756 | Battle Ground IN | 1,905 | $111K | 4.0% | 4.2% | <1% | A− |
| 757 | Jackson Township IN | 2,812 | $96K | 5.3% | 1.2% | 1% | A− |
| 758 | Greenbush WI | 2,235 | $87K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A− |
| 759 | Knightsen CA | 2,264 | $177K | 3.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A− |
| 760 | Dover Base Housing DE | 2,962 | $82K | 2.2% | 12.4% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,102 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Greenbush, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Work in the towns next to Greenbush
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Greenbush workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greenbush | – | A− | D | 26 min | $87,031 |
| Glenbeulah | under 2% | — | — | 29 min | — |
| Plymouth | under 2% | A− | D | 18 min | $76,094 |
| Forest | under 2% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Russell | under 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Mitchell | under 2% | A− | D | 30 min | $97,212 |
| Rhine | under 2% | A− | D | 19 min | $98,542 |
Same-state neighbors only. Glenbeulah: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Forest: not graded. Russell: the same community as the town of that name, graded once. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Greenbush’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 Greenbush: questions
What is the median household income in Greenbush?
$87,031 (±$10,629) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Greenbush?
1.9%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Greenbush?
26 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Greenbush work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Plymouth (14%, 7 mi), Sheboygan (11%, 19 mi), Sheboygan Falls (4%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Greenbush walkable?
Greenbush is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.5 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Greenbush 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 Greenbush, from the people who make the trip.
More of Greenbush
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.