Lyndon has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Only 2% work in Lyndon itself; outside it, Plymouth draws the most (17%, 5 miles). Employers in Lyndon report 273 jobs for 663 working residents. Lyndon grades A− for jobs and income and C for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Why Lyndon gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Lyndon is better than 79% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate is its strongest input (4.3%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 53% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (2.2%) is left out: Lyndon’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, Lyndon could be anywhere from B to A.
How a workday changes Lyndon
On a workday 647 residents head out to work, 16 work right here, and 257 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Lyndon on a workday afternoon, 25% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where people from Lyndon work
Where Lyndon clocks in
17% of workers
17% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 44% of the jobs in Lyndon
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lyndon, 2014 → 2024: 123 → 273. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Lyndon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Lyndon spends getting to work: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lyndon workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 749 commuters (the 11% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Lyndon
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Lyndon, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lyndon is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 5.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 841 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). 2.8% of Lyndon households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Lyndon’s commuters take a bus or train.
Lyndon places 657th of 5,794 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 42 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 47 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 655 | Haven Township MN | 1,951 | $104K | 3.8% | 4.2% | 2% | A− |
| 656 | Greensburg Township OH | 1,451 | $107K | 0.9% | 0.0% | 2% | A− |
| 657 | Lyndon WI | 1,545 | $93K | 4.3% | 2.2% | 2% | A− |
| 658 | Caledonia NY | 2,089 | $84K | 4.7% | 3.0% | 8% | A− |
| 659 | Union Grove Township IL | 1,165 | $106K | 0.6% | 5.8% | 0% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 Lyndon, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
The towns around Lyndon
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Lyndon’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 2024, 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 Lyndon: questions
What is the median household income in Lyndon?
$93,000 (±$19,054) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lyndon?
4.3%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lyndon?
24 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lyndon work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Plymouth (17%, 5 mi), Sheboygan (17%, 13 mi), Kohler (5%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Lyndon walkable?
Lyndon is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lyndon without a car?
1% 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 Lyndon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lyndon
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.