Photo: I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: · CC BY-SA 3.0Horicon has lower household incomes than 83% of U.S. towns
About one in ten work in Horicon; the top destination outside it is Mayville (8%, 6 miles). Below the poverty line: 14.1% of residents (Wisconsin 10.6%). For jobs and income Horicon is better than 31% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns (B−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Horicon apart on work
Horicon’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
Job access by car holds Horicon’s grade up (ahead of 59% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($53,465, U.S. $80,734).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Horicon could be anywhere from D to B.
Horicon works in goods: 40% of its jobs
2,418 jobs are based in Horicon.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Horicon, 2013 → 2023: 2,660 → 2,418. 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 Horicon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Horicon fills up on a workday
On a workday 1,733 residents head out to work, 221 work right here, and 2,197 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,400 people are in Horicon on a workday afternoon, 12% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.24 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.
The places Horicon commutes to
Where Horicon clocks in
8% of workers
7% of workers
6% 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 21 minutes each way, about the WI average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Horicon workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,723 commuters (the 10% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Horicon
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.
Most trips from Horicon start in a car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 6.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,912 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). 2.4% of Horicon households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Horicon’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Horicon ranks: 3,098th of 4,364 U.S. towns of 2,700 to 5,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 44 | Ottawa WI | 3,642 | $153K | 1.0% | 1.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 54 | Jackson WI | 3,950 | $117K | 0.6% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 59 | Bristol WI | 4,347 | $141K | 1.2% | 0.8% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,096 | Kings Beach CA | 2,736 | $68K | 6.8% | 5.1% | 10% | C |
| 3,097 | Jewett City CT | 3,456 | $56K | 13.9% | 5.3% | 3% | C |
| 3,098 | Horicon WI | 3,917 | $53K | 14.1% | 4.8% | 11% | C |
| 3,099 | Colerain Township OH | 4,061 | $70K | 11.0% | 5.1% | 3% | C |
| 3,100 | Cherokee IA | 5,122 | $62K | 18.5% | 2.4% | 38% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,364 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Horicon, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Next door to Horicon
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Horicon workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Horicon | – | C | B− | 21 min | $53,465 |
| Hubbard | under 2% | B+ | D | 28 min | $91,215 |
| Kekoskee | under 2% | — | — | 25 min | — |
| Oak Grove | under 2% | C+ | B | 21 min | $75,781 |
| Burnett | under 2% | — | — | 21 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Kekoskee: not graded. Burnett: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Horicon’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 Horicon: questions
What is the median household income in Horicon?
$53,465 (±$6,774) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Horicon?
14.1%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Horicon?
21 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Horicon work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mayville (8%, 6 mi), Beaver Dam (7%, 10 mi), Madison (6%, 47 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Horicon walkable?
Horicon is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.6 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Horicon without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Horicon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Horicon
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.