Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 3.0Households in Mayville have lower incomes than those in 63% of U.S. towns
About one in four stay in Mayville for work; outside it, Hartford is the main destination (5%, 15 miles). Poverty touches 6.6% of residents, where Wisconsin as a whole has 10.6%. The two grades for Mayville are B for jobs and income and C+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Mayville apart
Mayville makes and builds things
65% of the jobs based in Mayville are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Mayville residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 43%. The jobs ↓
Mayville trades workers with the towns around it
Mayville has about as many jobs (2,910) as working residents (2,544), but they are mostly different people: 1,869 residents leave for work each day while 2,235 people come in. Only 23% of the jobs in Mayville are held by people who 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.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Mayville
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Mayville is better than 56% of U.S. towns, #272 of 362 in Wisconsin. The poverty rate holds Mayville’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($66,834, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Mayville could be anywhere from C to A.
Goods jobs make up 65% of work in Mayville
2,910 jobs are based in Mayville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mayville, 2013 → 2023: 3,141 → 2,910. 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 Mayville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Mayville by day
On a workday 1,869 residents head out to work, 675 work right here, and 2,235 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.14 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.
Where the trip to work from Mayville ends
Where Mayville clocks in
5% 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.
About 18 minutes to work from Mayville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mayville workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,470 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 Mayville commutes
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.
For most of Mayville, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mayville is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns, #218 of 362 in Wisconsin. Both inputs place Mayville 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 2,663 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). 4.9% of Mayville households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mayville’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Mayville is 1,775th of 3,696 U.S. towns of 3,600 to 7,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | Fox Point WI | 6,583 | $141K | 2.5% | 0.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 35 | Elm Grove WI | 6,354 | $158K | 4.4% | 0.7% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 56 | Ottawa WI | 3,642 | $153K | 1.0% | 1.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,773 | Orange City IA | 6,468 | $82K | 11.2% | 2.7% | 48% | B |
| 1,774 | Rossford OH | 6,369 | $71K | 10.3% | 4.7% | 7% | B |
| 1,775 | Mayville WI | 5,184 | $67K | 6.6% | 4.3% | 27% | B |
| 1,776 | Richland Township MI | 3,902 | $84K | 12.5% | 3.0% | 6% | B |
| 1,777 | Waimanalo HI | 6,054 | $117K | 14.9% | 5.1% | <1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,696 | 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 Mayville, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
The towns around Mayville
The biggest share goes to Kekoskee (1%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Mayville’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 Mayville: questions
What is the median household income in Mayville?
$66,834 (±$10,462) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mayville?
6.6%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mayville?
18 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mayville work?
27% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hartford (5%, 15 mi), Fond du Lac (5%, 20 mi), Horicon (4%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mayville walkable?
Mayville is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 6.9 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mayville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mayville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mayville
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.