Most of Linwood commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
77 jobs are based in Linwood; 516 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Linwood B+; getting around on foot earns it D. Hardly any work in Linwood; the top destination outside it is Stevens Point (37%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Linwood, in a few figures
Much of Linwood works one town over
47% of working residents work in a town that borders Linwood: Stevens Point (37%) and Plover (10%). Next door ↓
Linwood is a place people come home to
There are 77 jobs based in Linwood, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Linwood has about 640 people in it, 41% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 516 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Linwood
On income, poverty and job access, Linwood is better than 74% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Linwood’s grade up (1.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 41% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (1.9%) is left out: Linwood’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, Linwood could be anywhere from B to A−.
In and out of Linwood on a workday
On a workday 516 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 77 people come in from elsewhere.
About 640 people are in Linwood on a workday afternoon, 41% 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.
The towns that employ Linwood’s residents
Where Linwood 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.
32% of the jobs in Linwood make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Linwood, 2013 → 2023: 40 → 77. 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 Linwood’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 20 minutes each way, quicker than most of Wisconsin
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Linwood workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 480 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.
Where in the region Linwood works
About 26% 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.
Driving is how Linwood gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Linwood is more walkable than 13% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 3.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 514 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). 2.7% of Linwood households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Linwood’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500, Linwood comes 487th 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 19 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 485 | Elk Run Heights IA | 1,053 | $77K | 4.0% | 1.0% | 1% | B+ |
| 486 | Oconto Falls WI | 1,291 | $92K | 3.1% | 0.3% | 3% | B+ |
| 487 | Linwood WI | 1,082 | $82K | 1.4% | 1.9% | 0% | B+ |
| 488 | Elmore OH | 1,370 | $85K | 6.1% | 0.0% | 3% | B+ |
| 489 | Merritt Township MI | 1,325 | $89K | 4.8% | 4.2% | <1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Linwood, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Bordering towns draw 47% of Linwood’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Linwood workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linwood | – | B+ | D | 20 min | $81,875 |
| Whiting | under 2% | B | B+ | 14 min | $73,063 |
| Plover | 10% | B | C+ | 18 min | $88,042 |
| Plover | under 2% | B+ | C+ | 16 min | $90,481 |
| Rudolph | under 2% | A− | D | 27 min | $89,464 |
| Carson | under 2% | B+ | D | 22 min | $90,278 |
| Stevens Point | 37% | C | A | 17 min | $58,031 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Stevens Point. Darker towns draw more of Linwood’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 Linwood: questions
What is the median household income in Linwood?
$81,875 (±$18,730) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Linwood?
1.4%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Linwood?
20 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Linwood work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Stevens Point (37%, 6 mi), Plover (10%, 6 mi), Wisconsin Rapids (4%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Linwood walkable?
Linwood is more walkable than 13% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Linwood without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Linwood, from the people who make the trip.
More of Linwood
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.