Pleasant Hill Residential Historic District · Photo: Jeff the quiet · CC0Marshfield draws 15,706 commuters a day, with 2.2 jobs for every working resident
There are 20,584 jobs in Marshfield, and 9,519 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for Marshfield are B− for jobs and income and A for walkability. Measured by household income, Marshfield is behind 76% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Marshfield
Marshfield is where the jobs are
Marshfield has 20,584 jobs, 2.2 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 30,000 people are in town, 58% more than the 19,000 who live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Marshfield are quick
The average trip to work takes 15 minutes, against 22 across Wisconsin. That’s about 54 hours a year less on the road than the typical Wisconsin worker. Time on the road ↓
Marshfield draws workers from far and wide
The 20,584 jobs in Marshfield are filled from a wide area. Marshfield’s own residents hold 24% and the ten next-biggest home towns 15%; the other 61% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
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.
Marshfield’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Marshfield is better than 46% of U.S. towns, #303 of 362 in Wisconsin. Unemployment holds Marshfield’s grade up (2.8%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($58,407, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Marshfield could be anywhere from C to B.
In and out of Marshfield on a workday
On a workday 4,641 residents head out to work and 4,878 work right here.
About 30,000 people are in Marshfield on a workday afternoon, 58% more 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.
A commute of about 15 minutes in Marshfield
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Marshfield workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 8,287 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.
Who travels to work in Marshfield, and from where
Where Marshfield clocks in
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.
65% of the jobs in Marshfield pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Marshfield, 2013 → 2023: 20,017 → 20,584. 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 Marshfield’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Marshfield to work
About 25% 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Marshfield
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Marshfield is more walkable than 87% of U.S. towns, #26 of 362 in Wisconsin. Both inputs place Marshfield 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 9,323 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). 7.4% of Marshfield households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Marshfield’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Marshfield ranks: 1,373rd of 2,023 U.S. towns of 13,000 to 26,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| 2 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| 3 | Trophy Club TX | 13,695 | $201K | 2.1% | 2.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Greenville WI | 13,388 | $118K | 1.7% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 49 | Whitefish Bay WI | 14,489 | $157K | 3.7% | 2.6% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 54 | Verona WI | 16,821 | $120K | 1.4% | 1.6% | 21% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,371 | Brookside DE | 15,115 | $78K | 14.6% | 6.1% | 3% | B− |
| 1,372 | Owego NY | 18,745 | $86K | 13.6% | 4.4% | 21% | B− |
| 1,373 | Marshfield WI | 18,980 | $58K | 11.6% | 2.8% | 51% | B− |
| 1,374 | Box Elder SD | 13,936 | $73K | 7.5% | 4.9% | 7% | B− |
| 1,375 | Urbana Township OH | 14,105 | $69K | 11.4% | 4.5% | 29% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,023 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Marshfield, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Marshfield and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Lincoln (1%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Marshfield workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marshfield | – | B− | A | 15 min | $58,407 |
| McMillan | under 1% | B+ | C | 20 min | $112,917 |
| Cameron | under 1% | — | — | 14 min | — |
| Lincoln | 1% | A− | C | 17 min | $106,607 |
| Spencer | under 1% | — | — | 20 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Cameron and Spencer: the same communities as the places of those names, graded once. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Marshfield’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 Marshfield: questions
What is the median household income in Marshfield?
$58,407 (±$3,102) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Marshfield?
11.6%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Marshfield?
15 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Marshfield work?
51% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wausau (3%, 33 mi), Stevens Point (2%, 32 mi), Wisconsin Rapids (2%, 25 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Marshfield walkable?
Marshfield is more walkable than 87% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.6 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Marshfield without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Marshfield, from the people who make the trip.
More of Marshfield
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.