Black Hawk Powwow Grounds · Photo: Tim Krause · CC BY-SA 3.0Komensky has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
Komensky has 3 jobs for 123 working residents. Working residents average 20 minutes each way (Wisconsin 22, U.S. 26). Home is the office for 4% of workers, next to 13% for Wisconsin as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in Komensky by day
On a workday 123 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 3 people come in from elsewhere.
About 380 people are in Komensky on a workday afternoon, 24% 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.
23% of working residents work in Brockway
Where Komensky clocks in
Lines 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.
In Komensky, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Komensky, 2013 → 2023: 23 → 3. 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 Komensky’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Komensky, about 20 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Komensky workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 140 commuters (the 4% 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 distance from Komensky to work
About 36% 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.
Komensky and its neighbors: 23% work next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Komensky workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Komensky | – | — | — | 20 min | $46,875 |
| Adams | under 2% | C+ | D | 26 min | $75,750 |
| Millston | under 2% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| City Point | under 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Levis | under 2% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Brockway | 23% | D | C+ | 23 min | $49,896 |
| Dewhurst | under 2% | — | — | 27 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Millston, City Point, Levis and Dewhurst: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Brockway. Darker towns draw more of Komensky’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 Komensky: questions
What is the median household income in Komensky?
$46,875 (±$20,040) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Komensky?
29.9%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Komensky?
20 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Komensky work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Brockway (23%, 9 mi), Black River Falls (14%, 11 mi), Delton (7%, 70 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Komensky without a car?
1% 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 Komensky, from the people who make the trip.
More of Komensky
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.