With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Humboldt works elsewhere
Employers in Humboldt report 273 jobs for 616 working residents. Jobs and income earn Humboldt A−; getting around on foot earns it C. Only 2% work in Humboldt itself; outside it, Green Bay draws the most (26%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Humboldt and work: the main findings
Income, poverty and work: Humboldt’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Humboldt is better than 76% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Humboldt’s grade. It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (2.3%) is left out: Humboldt’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, Humboldt could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Who works in Humboldt, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 603 residents head out to work, 13 work right here, and 260 people come in from elsewhere.
About 940 people are in Humboldt on a workday afternoon, 27% 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.
Commuting out of Humboldt: the destinations
Where Humboldt clocks in
26% 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.
Humboldt makes things: 63% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Humboldt, 2013 → 2023: 232 → 273. 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 Humboldt’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Humboldt: about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Humboldt workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 755 commuters (the 14% 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.
The commute from Humboldt, by distance
About 15% 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.
Humboldt is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Humboldt is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 5.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 880 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). 3.7% of Humboldt households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Humboldt’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Humboldt ranks: 598th 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 42 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 596 | Okawville IL | 1,343 | $84K | 3.5% | 7.1% | 14% | A− |
| 597 | District Township PA | 1,407 | $101K | 9.2% | 3.7% | 1% | A− |
| 598 | Humboldt WI | 1,286 | $93K | 6.6% | 2.3% | 2% | A− |
| 599 | Lake Mohawk OH | 1,409 | $75K | 1.3% | 10.4% | 2% | A− |
| 600 | Trafalgar IN | 1,658 | $78K | 5.1% | 4.3% | 6% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Humboldt, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Work next door: 31% of Humboldt’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Green Bay. Darker towns draw more of Humboldt’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 Humboldt: questions
What is the median household income in Humboldt?
$93,417 (±$28,940) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Humboldt?
6.6%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Humboldt?
26 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Humboldt work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Green Bay (26%, 8 mi), Ashwaubenon (10%, 13 mi), De Pere (6%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Humboldt walkable?
Humboldt is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Humboldt without a car?
<1% 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 Humboldt, from the people who make the trip.
More of Humboldt
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.