Robert Schofield House · Photo: Jeff the quiet · CC0Households in Greenwood have lower incomes than those in 66% of U.S. towns
Only 8% work in Greenwood itself; outside it, Neillsville draws the most (10%, 14 miles). Below the poverty line: 13.7% of residents, next to 10.6% for Wisconsin as a whole. Jobs and income earn Greenwood C−; getting around on foot earns it A−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Greenwood
The figures behind Greenwood’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Greenwood is better than 19% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Greenwood’s grade up ($65,112, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 18% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (3.7%) is left out: Greenwood’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Greenwood could be anywhere from D to B−.
About 32 minutes to work from Greenwood
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Greenwood workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 589 commuters (the 8% 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.
Who commutes out of Greenwood, and who commutes in
On a workday 349 residents head out to work, 30 work right here, and 272 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.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.80 per resident).
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 people from Greenwood work
Where Greenwood 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.
What work there is in Greenwood: 302 jobs
302 jobs are based in Greenwood.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Greenwood, 2014 → 2024: 339 → 302. 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 Greenwood’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Greenwood, by distance
About 26% 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.
Greenwood 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, Greenwood is more walkable than 84% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 12.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 7.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 640 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). 5.5% of Greenwood households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Greenwood’s commuters take a bus or train.
2,591st of 3,771: where Greenwood ranks among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 44 | Big Bend WI | 1,498 | $135K | 3.2% | 0.6% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,589 | Monteagle TN | 1,439 | $63K | 13.0% | 10.2% | 5% | C− |
| 2,590 | Plains TX | 1,323 | $77K | 15.5% | 9.9% | 26% | C− |
| 2,591 | Greenwood WI | 1,079 | $65K | 13.7% | 3.7% | 8% | C− |
| 2,592 | Preston Township PA | 1,013 | $71K | 11.8% | 1.8% | 7% | C− |
| 2,593 | Fort Dick CA | 1,365 | $71K | 15.6% | 13.2% | 1% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Greenwood, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Next door to Greenwood
The biggest share goes to Eaton (7%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Greenwood workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greenwood | – | C− | A− | 32 min | $65,112 |
| Eaton | 7% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Warner | under 2% | — | — | 42 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Eaton: the same community as the town of that name, graded once. Warner: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Greenwood’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 Greenwood: questions
What is the median household income in Greenwood?
$65,112 (±$6,015) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Greenwood?
13.7%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Greenwood?
32 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Greenwood work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Neillsville (10%, 14 mi), Eaton (7%, 2 mi), Thorp (7%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Greenwood walkable?
Greenwood is more walkable than 84% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.6 out of 20, and 13% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Greenwood without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Greenwood, from the people who make the trip.
More of Greenwood
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.