Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 4.0Household incomes in Lodi are higher than in 87% of U.S. towns
For jobs and income Lodi is better than 83% of U.S. towns (A−); for walkability it is more walkable than 78% of U.S. towns (A−). Poverty touches 5.1% of residents, against 10.6% across Wisconsin. About one in ten work in Lodi; the top destination outside it is Madison (28%, 17 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Lodi
What’s behind Lodi’s Jobs & income grade
Household income is its strongest input ($117,584, U.S. $80,734); unemployment ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (3.9%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Lodi could be anywhere from B to A+.
The places Lodi commutes to
Where Lodi clocks in
28% of workers
5% of workers
4% 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Lodi
On a workday 1,469 residents head out to work, 170 work right here, and 1,133 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,900 people are in Lodi on a workday afternoon, 11% fewer than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.79 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
What Lodi’s employers do
1,303 jobs are based in Lodi.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lodi, 2013 → 2023: 1,125 → 1,303. 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 Lodi’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Lodi’s commute takes about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lodi workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,429 commuters (the 16% 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 Lodi works
About 16% 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Lodi
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,698 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). 0.0% of Lodi households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lodi’s commuters take a bus or train.
Lodi places 686th of 4,698 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 2,200 to 4,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 38 | Ottawa WI | 3,642 | $153K | 1.0% | 1.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 51 | Jackson WI | 3,950 | $117K | 0.6% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 65 | Center WI | 3,706 | $115K | 1.6% | 0.0% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 684 | Clearwater KS | 2,792 | $84K | 5.5% | 1.8% | 10% | A− |
| 685 | Richfield OH | 3,720 | $83K | 4.4% | 3.8% | 7% | A− |
| 686 | Lodi WI | 3,190 | $118K | 5.1% | 3.9% | 10% | A− |
| 687 | Marion Township IL | 3,866 | $105K | 5.2% | 2.5% | 5% | A− |
| 688 | Washington Township IN | 2,571 | $84K | 2.7% | 0.0% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,698 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Lodi, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
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 Lodi: questions
What is the median household income in Lodi?
$117,584 (±$15,082) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lodi?
5.1%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lodi?
24 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lodi work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Madison (28%, 17 mi), Middleton (5%, 15 mi), Prairie du Sac (4%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lodi walkable?
Lodi is more walkable than 78% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 8.3 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lodi without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lodi, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lodi
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.