Laketown has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
There are 56 jobs in Laketown for 517 working residents. Jobs and income earn Laketown C+; getting around on foot earns it C+. Working from home is the commute for 4% of workers, against 13% across Wisconsin.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Laketown, in a few figures
Laketown is a place people come home to
There are 56 jobs based in Laketown, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Laketown has about 590 people in it, 44% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Laketown 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 Laketown workers work from home
Only 4% 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 517 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Laketown’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Laketown is better than 43% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Laketown’s grade up (7.3%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 10% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (2.4%) is left out: Laketown’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Laketown could be anywhere from C to B.
How a workday changes Laketown
On a workday 513 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 52 people come in from elsewhere.
About 590 people are in Laketown on a workday afternoon, 44% 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 2024, primary jobs.
A commute of about 30 minutes in Laketown
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Laketown workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 499 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.
11% of working residents work in Luck
Where Laketown clocks in
3% 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.
Jobs in Laketown: what the 56 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Laketown, 2014 → 2024: 50 → 56. 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 Laketown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Laketown to work
About 29% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Laketown is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Laketown is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 4.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 521 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). 7.2% of Laketown households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Laketown’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400, Laketown ranks 1,241st of 3,133 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
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| 17 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 67 | Kaukauna WI | 1,295 | $122K | 2.0% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,239 | Columbia Township MI | 1,205 | $84K | 7.6% | 2.1% | 3% | C+ |
| 1,240 | Venice NY | 1,234 | $92K | 11.2% | 6.0% | 7% | C+ |
| 1,241 | Laketown WI | 1,047 | $83K | 7.3% | 2.4% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,242 | Robinhood MS | 1,298 | $70K | 14.1% | 5.1% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,243 | Ohatchee AL | 1,188 | $77K | 12.0% | 3.9% | 1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 Laketown, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Laketown and the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Laketown workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laketown | – | C+ | C+ | 30 min | $83,030 |
| Sterling | under 2% | — | — | 39 min | — |
| Trade Lake | under 2% | — | — | 36 min | — |
| Luck | under 2% | — | — | 28 min | — |
| Eureka | under 2% | B− | D | 32 min | $87,642 |
Same-state neighbors only. Sterling and Trade Lake: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Luck: the same community as the village of that name, graded once. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Laketown’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 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 Laketown: questions
What is the median household income in Laketown?
$83,030 (±$3,897) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Laketown?
7.3%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Laketown?
30 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Laketown work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Luck (11%, 7 mi), St. Croix Falls (7%, 13 mi), Minneapolis (3%, 54 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Laketown walkable?
Laketown is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.1 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Laketown without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Laketown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Laketown
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.