Households in Loyal have lower incomes than those in 66% of U.S. towns
For jobs and income Loyal is better than 23% of U.S. towns (C−); for walkability it is more walkable than 55% of U.S. towns (B). The poverty rate is 11.8%, next to 10.6% for Wisconsin as a whole. About one in seven work in Loyal; the top destination outside it is Neillsville (6%, 13 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Loyal at work: what stands out
Stores, warehouses and trucking
57% of the jobs in Loyal are in trade, transport and utilities, against 26% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Loyal has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Loyal went from 309 in 2013 to 487 in 2023, +58%. The jobs ↓
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 355 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
What’s behind Loyal’s Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Loyal’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 20% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (6.4%) is left out: Loyal’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, Loyal could be anywhere from D to C+.
65% of the jobs in Loyal pay over $3,333 a month
487 jobs are based in Loyal.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Loyal, 2013 → 2023: 309 → 487. 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 Loyal’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Loyal on a workday afternoon
On a workday 310 residents head out to work, 45 work right here, and 442 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Loyal on a workday afternoon, 11% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.37 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.
The places Loyal commutes to
Where Loyal clocks in
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.
Getting to work from Loyal takes about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Loyal workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 621 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.
How many miles Loyal commutes
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.
Loyal is a driving town
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 7.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 5.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 668 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). 5.9% of Loyal households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Loyal’s commuters take a bus or train.
2,763rd of 4,312: where Loyal ranks among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 21 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 37 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 51 | Big Bend WI | 1,498 | $135K | 3.2% | 0.6% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,761 | Lake Brownwood TX | 1,544 | $70K | 12.2% | 7.3% | 3% | C− |
| 2,762 | Kootenai ID | 1,091 | $71K | 13.2% | 5.5% | 2% | C− |
| 2,763 | Loyal WI | 1,190 | $65K | 11.8% | 6.4% | 13% | C− |
| 2,764 | Farm Island Township MN | 1,050 | $68K | 9.7% | 0.0% | 1% | C− |
| 2,765 | Riley Township OH | 1,106 | $62K | 17.5% | 7.6% | 2% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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 Loyal, 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 Loyal: questions
What is the median household income in Loyal?
$65,284 (±$8,731) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Loyal?
11.8%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Loyal?
22 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Loyal work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Neillsville (6%, 13 mi), Abbotsford (5%, 17 mi), Eaton (4%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Loyal walkable?
Loyal is more walkable than 55% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.0 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Loyal without a car?
1% 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 Loyal, from the people who make the trip.
More of Loyal
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.