Photo: Corey Coyle · CC BY 3.0Households in Maple Bluff earn more than those in 98% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Maple Bluff A+; getting around on foot earns it A. 3.0% of residents are in poverty, against 10.6% across Wisconsin. For a town this walkable, transit is thin: about 9.1 trips an hour at the evening peak near the typical resident, next to 25.8 in Madison.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Maple Bluff, in a few figures
More than half of Maple Bluff works in Madison
403 working residents, 60%, have their main job in Madison, 3.6 miles away. That’s 30 times as many as work in Maple Bluff itself. The commute map ↓
Most Maple Bluff residents work close to home
76% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about three in four. How far ↓
Maple Bluff is a place people come home to
There are 198 jobs based in Maple Bluff, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Maple Bluff has about 830 people in it, 37% 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 676 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Maple Bluff: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Maple Bluff is among the top U.S. towns. Household income is its strongest input ($198,750, U.S. $80,734); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 83% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (1.3%) is left out: Maple Bluff’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A firm grade. At either end of the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Maple Bluff stays A+.
60% of working residents work in Madison
Where Maple Bluff clocks in
60% of workers
4% of workers
3% 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 commute from Maple Bluff, by distance
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.
Maple Bluff on a workday afternoon
On a workday 663 residents head out to work, 13 work right here, and 185 people come in from elsewhere.
About 830 people are in Maple Bluff on a workday afternoon, 37% fewer than live here.
0.29 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
198 jobs are based in Maple Bluff.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Maple Bluff, 2013 → 2023: 216 → 198. 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 Maple Bluff’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 20 minutes from Maple Bluff
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Maple Bluff workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 500 commuters (the 21% 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Maple Bluff
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Maple Bluff is more walkable than 88% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Maple Bluff near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 629 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 9.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 92% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 2.2% of Maple Bluff households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Maple Bluff’s commuters take a bus or train.
Maple Bluff next to U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800: 45th of 5,400 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 43 | Pewee Valley KY | 1,668 | $157K | 3.0% | 2.7% | 1% | A+ |
| 44 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 4% | A+ |
| 45 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 46 | Fisher Island FL | 1,026 | $250K | 3.8% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| 47 | Port Barrington IL | 1,584 | $150K | 2.7% | 2.9% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 49 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 61 | Vandenbroek WI | 1,701 | $129K | 1.6% | 5.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Maple Bluff, 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 Maple Bluff: questions
What is the median household income in Maple Bluff?
$198,750 (±$22,710) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Maple Bluff?
3.0%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Maple Bluff?
20 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Maple Bluff work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Madison (60%, 4 mi), Middleton (4%, 7 mi), Fitchburg (3%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Maple Bluff walkable?
Maple Bluff is more walkable than 88% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 11.4 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Maple Bluff without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Maple Bluff, from the people who make the trip.
More of Maple Bluff
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.