Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 3.0Jobs, pay and the trip to work in Hustisford
Only 4% work in Hustisford itself; outside it, Madison draws the most (7%, 45 miles). The two grades for Hustisford are B for jobs and income and C for walkability. Home is the office for 1% of workers, where Wisconsin as a whole has 13%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Hustisford apart
Hustisford makes and builds things
58% of the jobs based in Hustisford are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Hustisford residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 31%. The jobs ↓
Hustisford workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 30 minutes each way, against 22 across Wisconsin. Over a year that’s about 230 hours of commuting, 61 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Few Hustisford workers work from home
Only 1% of workers work from home, against 13% across Wisconsin. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 520 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Hustisford’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Hustisford is better than 62% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Hustisford’s grade up (5.5%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($72,083, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (1.4%) is left out: Hustisford’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, Hustisford could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
Goods jobs make up 58% of work in Hustisford
304 jobs are based in Hustisford.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hustisford, 2014 → 2024: 361 → 304. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Hustisford’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 30 minutes from Hustisford
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hustisford workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 547 commuters (the 1% 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.
Who leaves Hustisford for work, and who comes in
On a workday 499 residents head out to work, 21 work right here, and 283 people come in from elsewhere.
About 860 people are in Hustisford on a workday afternoon, 20% fewer than live here.
0.58 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where people from Hustisford work
Where Hustisford clocks in
7% 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.
Hustisford’s commute, mile by mile
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Hustisford, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hustisford is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Hustisford near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 554 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). 5.0% of Hustisford households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hustisford’s commuters take a bus or train.
847th of 3,771: where Hustisford ranks among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 2% | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 845 | Veale Township IN | 1,140 | $93K | 5.6% | 2.0% | <1% | B |
| 846 | Moncure NC | 1,039 | $54K | 1.2% | 0.0% | 0% | B |
| 847 | Hustisford WI | 1,076 | $72K | 5.5% | 1.4% | 4% | B |
| 848 | Greenwich Township OH | 1,018 | $78K | 2.7% | 0.0% | 1% | B |
| 849 | Jackson Township OH | 1,169 | $82K | 8.7% | 0.0% | 1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Hustisford, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, 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 Hustisford: questions
What is the median household income in Hustisford?
$72,083 (±$13,925) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hustisford?
5.5%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hustisford?
30 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hustisford work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Madison (7%, 45 mi), Watertown (7%, 12 mi), Hartford (6%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Hustisford walkable?
Hustisford is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.4 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hustisford without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hustisford, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hustisford
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.