Zirbel-Hildebrandt Farmstead · Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Herman works elsewhere
Jobs and income earn Herman A; getting around on foot earns it B−. Herman has 134 jobs, against 532 working residents. Household incomes here are higher than in 86% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Herman, in a few figures
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Herman
On income, poverty and job access, Herman is better than 87% of U.S. towns. Household income is its strongest input ($114,773, U.S. $80,734); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 70% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (0.4%) is left out: Herman’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, Herman could be anywhere from B+ to A+.
Herman on a workday afternoon
On a workday 526 residents head out to work, 6 work right here, and 128 people come in from elsewhere.
About 750 people are in Herman on a workday afternoon, 35% 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 2023, primary jobs.
10% of working residents work in Hartford
Where Herman clocks in
10% of workers
9% of workers
5% 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.
Making and building: 62% of jobs based in Herman
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Herman, 2013 → 2023: 116 → 134. 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 Herman’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Herman: about 24 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Herman workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 495 commuters (the 7% 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 Herman’s workers travel
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.
In Herman, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Herman is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 5.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 531 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). 0.0% of Herman households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Herman’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500, Herman comes 207th 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 205 | Elba WI | 1,027 | $111K | 3.5% | 1.7% | 1% | A |
| 206 | Montreat NC | 1,024 | $116K | 0.0% | 9.6% | 1% | A |
| 207 | Herman WI | 1,145 | $115K | 6.3% | 0.4% | 1% | A |
| 208 | Waupun WI | 1,390 | $113K | 2.5% | 0.0% | 2% | A |
| 209 | Bellefonte DE | 1,313 | $91K | 5.5% | 4.9% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Herman, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
How Herman compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Hubbard (5%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Herman workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Herman | – | A | B− | 24 min | $114,773 |
| Theresa | under 3% | A | C+ | 26 min | $116,750 |
| Addison | under 3% | A | C− | 24 min | $112,935 |
| Hubbard | 5% | B+ | D | 28 min | $91,215 |
| Iron Ridge | 2% | — | — | 28 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Iron Ridge: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Herman’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 Herman: questions
What is the median household income in Herman?
$114,773 (±$13,933) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Herman?
6.3%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Herman?
24 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Herman work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hartford (10%, 7 mi), Mayville (9%, 7 mi), Horicon (5%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Herman walkable?
Herman is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Herman without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Herman, from the people who make the trip.
More of Herman
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.