Severance-Pipe Farmstead · Photo: Tgkrause · CC BY-SA 3.0Lanark has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
There are 30 jobs in Lanark; 785 of its residents have a job. Lanark grades B+ for jobs and income and D for walkability. Measured by household income, Lanark is ahead of 80% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Lanark
What’s behind Lanark’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Lanark is better than 73% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Lanark’s grade up (3.8%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 27% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (1.0%) is left out: Lanark’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, Lanark could be anywhere from B to A−.
Lanark quiets down on a workday
On a workday 783 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 28 people come in from elsewhere.
About 790 people are in Lanark on a workday afternoon, 49% 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.
19% of working residents work in Stevens Point
Where Lanark clocks in
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.
A place that makes things: 83% of Lanark’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lanark, 2013 → 2023: 23 → 30. 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 Lanark’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 26 minutes each way for Lanark’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lanark workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 759 commuters (the 7% 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 Lanark to work
About 22% 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.
Most trips from Lanark start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lanark is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 2.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 815 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). 1.3% of Lanark households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lanark’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Lanark ranks: 952nd of 5,794 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 24 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 42 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 47 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 950 | Angola NY | 2,029 | $81K | 6.5% | 3.0% | 2% | B+ |
| 951 | Eden Township OH | 1,328 | $109K | 5.4% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| 952 | Lanark WI | 1,546 | $104K | 3.8% | 1.0% | <1% | B+ |
| 953 | Lowell WI | 1,157 | $96K | 6.6% | 3.4% | 2% | B+ |
| 954 | Eldridge CA | 1,379 | $122K | 9.1% | 9.7% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Lanark, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
How Lanark compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Buena Vista (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Lanark workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lanark | – | B+ | D | 26 min | $104,217 |
| Buena Vista | 2% | B− | B | 21 min | $68,472 |
| Amherst | under 2% | B | D | 29 min | $94,205 |
| Belmont | 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Farmington | under 2% | B+ | D | 18 min | $83,244 |
Same-state neighbors only. Belmont: 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 Lanark’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 Lanark: questions
What is the median household income in Lanark?
$104,217 (±$12,697) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lanark?
3.8%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lanark?
26 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lanark work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Stevens Point (19%, 17 mi), Plover (7%, 14 mi), Waupaca (6%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lanark walkable?
Lanark is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 2.6 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lanark 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 Lanark, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lanark
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.