Jobs and earnings in Hull, and the trip to work
Only 2% work in Hull itself; outside it, Abbotsford draws the most (16%, 5 miles). Commuters spend 15 minutes getting to work on average; Wisconsin averages 22, the U.S. 26. 330 jobs are based in Hull, and 341 of its residents work somewhere.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Hull: the figures worth knowing
Hull makes and builds things
72% of the jobs based in Hull are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Hull residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 40%. The jobs ↓
Hull and Abbotsford trade workers both ways
Abbotsford is the top workplace for Hull residents (16%) and also where the most people who work in Hull come from (10% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
36% of the jobs based in Hull are held by workers 29 or younger, against 15% of Hull’s own working residents. 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 341 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
A place that makes things: 72% of Hull’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hull, 2013 → 2023: 245 → 330. 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 Hull’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting out of Hull: the destinations
Where Hull clocks in
16% of workers
9% 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 workday shuffle in and out of Hull
On a workday 334 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 323 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 (0.97 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.
About 15 minutes each way, quicker than most of Wisconsin
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hull workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 309 commuters (the 18% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Hull
About 19% 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 towns next door employ 25% of Hull
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Hull workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hull | – | — | — | 15 min | $77,344 |
| Abbotsford | 16% | C | B− | 19 min | $68,580 |
| Colby | 9% | D | A− | 20 min | $50,114 |
| Frankfort | under 3% | — | — | 20 min | — |
| Brighton | under 3% | — | — | 20 min | — |
| Colby | under 3% | — | — | 18 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Frankfort: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Brighton and Colby: the same communities as the places of those names, graded once. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Abbotsford. Darker towns draw more of Hull’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 Hull: questions
What is the median household income in Hull?
$77,344 (±$15,337) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hull?
4.0%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hull?
15 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 18% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hull work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Abbotsford (16%, 5 mi), Marshfield (9%, 16 mi), Colby (9%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Hull 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 Hull, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hull
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.