Little Wolf has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
3% of workers work from home, where Wisconsin as a whole has 13%. Little Wolf has 118 jobs, and 711 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Little Wolf B+; getting around on foot earns it C.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Little Wolf: the gist
Little Wolf is a place people come home to
There are 118 jobs based in Little Wolf, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Little Wolf has about 780 people in it, 43% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Little Wolf workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 29 minutes each way, against 22 across Wisconsin. Over a year that’s about 222 hours of commuting, 54 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Few Little Wolf workers work from home
Only 3% 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 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 711 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Little Wolf’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Little Wolf is better than 73% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Little Wolf’s grade up (4.6%, 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 (1.2%) is left out: Little Wolf’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, Little Wolf could be anywhere from B to A−.
In and out of Little Wolf on a workday
On a workday 701 residents head out to work, 10 work right here, and 108 people come in from elsewhere.
About 780 people are in Little Wolf on a workday afternoon, 43% 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.
About 29 minutes each way for Little Wolf’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Little Wolf workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 777 commuters (the 3% 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 Waupaca
Where Little Wolf clocks in
11% of workers
9% 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.
Little Wolf makes things: 32% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Little Wolf, 2013 → 2023: 192 → 118. 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 Little Wolf’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Little Wolf
About 20% 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 Little Wolf start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Little Wolf is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 5.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 804 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). 2.2% of Little Wolf households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Little Wolf’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900, Little Wolf ranks 870th of 5,877 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 50 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 868 | Robins AFB GA | 1,193 | $107K | 5.9% | 9.9% | 2% | B+ |
| 869 | Jackson Township OH | 1,152 | $93K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| 870 | Little Wolf WI | 1,373 | $94K | 4.6% | 1.2% | 1% | B+ |
| 871 | Bogart GA | 1,326 | $90K | 7.9% | 1.3% | 3% | B+ |
| 872 | Fort Loramie OH | 1,736 | $94K | 5.8% | 2.2% | 10% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | 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 Little Wolf, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Work in the towns next to Little Wolf
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Little Wolf workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Little Wolf | – | B+ | C | 29 min | $94,205 |
| St. Lawrence | under 3% | — | — | 32 min | — |
| Royalton | under 3% | C+ | B− | 24 min | $79,205 |
| Lebanon | under 3% | B+ | D | 29 min | $79,138 |
| Union | under 3% | — | — | 27 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. St. Lawrence and Union: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Little Wolf’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 Little Wolf: questions
What is the median household income in Little Wolf?
$94,205 (±$6,696) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Little Wolf?
4.6%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Little Wolf?
29 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Little Wolf work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Waupaca (11%, 9 mi), Manawa (9%, 2 mi), New London (5%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Little Wolf walkable?
Little Wolf is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.1 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Little Wolf without a car?
0% 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 Little Wolf, from the people who make the trip.
More of Little Wolf
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.