Lemonweir has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Only 3% stay in Lemonweir for work; outside it, Mauston is the main destination (19%, 4 miles). There are 236 jobs in Lemonweir for 607 working residents. The two grades for Lemonweir are C for jobs and income and C for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Lemonweir
On income, poverty and job access, Lemonweir is better than 35% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Lemonweir’s grade up ($75,750, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 25% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (3.1%) is left out: Lemonweir’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, Lemonweir could be anywhere from C− to B.
The daily flow of workers through Lemonweir
On a workday 591 residents head out to work, 16 work right here, and 220 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Lemonweir on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
Where Lemonweir goes to work
Where Lemonweir clocks in
19% of workers
5% 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 Lemonweir: what the 236 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lemonweir, 2013 → 2023: 236 → 236. 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 Lemonweir’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 21 minutes in Lemonweir
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lemonweir workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 753 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.
Half of Lemonweir commutes less than 17 miles
About 27% 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.
In Lemonweir, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lemonweir is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Lemonweir 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 814 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). 6.1% of Lemonweir households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lemonweir’s commuters take a bus or train.
2,900th of 5,381: where Lemonweir ranks among U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 37 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 42 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,898 | Scipio Township MI | 1,855 | $68K | 10.3% | 6.9% | 2% | C |
| 2,899 | Eldred Township PA | 1,239 | $80K | 10.5% | 7.9% | 1% | C |
| 2,900 | Lemonweir WI | 1,645 | $76K | 11.3% | 3.1% | 3% | C |
| 2,901 | New Market AL | 1,314 | $63K | 10.1% | 2.3% | 2% | C |
| 2,902 | Sardis City AL | 1,787 | $68K | 12.1% | 4.1% | 4% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,381 | 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 Lemonweir, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Next door is work for 21% of Lemonweir
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Lemonweir workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lemonweir | – | C | C | 21 min | $75,750 |
| Mauston | 19% | C+ | A | 24 min | $63,636 |
| Marion | under 2% | — | — | 34 min | — |
| Lindina | under 2% | — | — | 19 min | — |
| Kildare | under 2% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Seven Mile Creek | under 2% | — | — | 29 min | — |
| Lisbon | 2% | — | — | 21 min | — |
| Germantown | under 2% | C+ | C− | 19 min | $73,571 |
Same-state neighbors only. Marion and Lisbon: the same communities as the places of those names, graded once. Lindina, Kildare and Seven Mile Creek: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Mauston. Darker towns draw more of Lemonweir’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 Lemonweir: questions
What is the median household income in Lemonweir?
$75,750 (±$16,141) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lemonweir?
11.3%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lemonweir?
21 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lemonweir work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mauston (19%, 4 mi), New Lisbon (9%, 10 mi), Reedsburg (5%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lemonweir walkable?
Lemonweir is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.8 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lemonweir without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lemonweir, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lemonweir
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.