Photo: The original uploader was Royalbroil at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 2.5Hilbert has lower household incomes than 72% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 14.3% of residents, where Wisconsin as a whole has 10.6%. For jobs and income Hilbert is better than 38% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns (B). Only 7% work in Hilbert itself; outside it, Chilton draws the most (13%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Hilbert at work: what stands out
Hilbert makes and builds things
76% of the jobs based in Hilbert are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Hilbert residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 39%. The jobs ↓
The jobs in Hilbert pay better than its residents’ jobs
77% of the jobs based in Hilbert pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 59% of the jobs Hilbert residents hold. 94% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Hilbert. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 559 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The four measures behind Hilbert’s grade
Job access by car holds Hilbert’s grade up (ahead of 67% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($61,000, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (1.3%) is left out: Hilbert’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, Hilbert could be anywhere from C− to B.
76% of the jobs in Hilbert make or build things
637 jobs are based in Hilbert.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hilbert, 2013 → 2023: 178 → 637. 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 Hilbert’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who commutes out of Hilbert, and who commutes in
On a workday 521 residents head out to work, 38 work right here, and 599 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 (1.14 per resident).
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 Hilbert’s working residents head each day
Where Hilbert clocks in
13% of workers
8% of workers
7% 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.
About 23 minutes each way for Hilbert’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hilbert workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 427 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.
Hilbert’s commute, mile by mile
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.
Hilbert is a driving town
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 507 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). 4.1% of Hilbert households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hilbert’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Hilbert ranks: 2,275th of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | 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+ |
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| 22 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
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| 42 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
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| 46 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
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| 2,273 | Moravian Falls NC | 1,285 | $48K | 5.4% | 0.0% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,274 | Castle Dale UT | 1,547 | $83K | 8.0% | 2.1% | 19% | C+ |
| 2,275 | Hilbert WI | 1,237 | $61K | 14.3% | 1.3% | 7% | C+ |
| 2,276 | Sharon WI | 1,550 | $68K | 12.2% | 4.0% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,277 | Martin Township IL | 1,188 | $81K | 12.4% | 5.4% | 10% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Hilbert, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Work in the towns next to Hilbert
The biggest share goes to Woodville (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Hilbert workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hilbert | – | C+ | B | 23 min | $61,000 |
| Woodville | 3% | — | — | 25 min | — |
| Rantoul | under 3% | — | — | 26 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Woodville: the same community as the village of that name, graded once. Rantoul: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Hilbert’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 Hilbert: questions
What is the median household income in Hilbert?
$61,000 (±$16,570) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hilbert?
14.3%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hilbert?
23 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hilbert work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Chilton (13%, 8 mi), Brillion (8%, 5 mi), Appleton (7%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hilbert walkable?
Hilbert is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.0 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hilbert without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hilbert, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hilbert
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.