Photo: Freekee · Public domainHousehold incomes in Mazomanie are higher than in 63% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 10.0% of residents (Wisconsin 10.6%). Mazomanie grades B for jobs and income and B for walkability. Only 7% stay in Mazomanie for work; outside it, Madison is the main destination (34%, 19 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Mazomanie apart
Mazomanie makes and builds things
61% of the jobs based in Mazomanie are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Mazomanie residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 27%. The jobs ↓
One in three of Mazomanie works in Madison
311 working residents, 34%, have their main job in Madison, 19 miles away. That’s 5 times as many as work in Mazomanie itself. The commute map ↓
Mazomanie has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Mazomanie went from 510 in 2014 to 702 in 2024, +38%. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 923 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Mazomanie
On income, poverty and job access, Mazomanie is better than 60% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Mazomanie’s grade. It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (1.7%) is left out: Mazomanie’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Mazomanie could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
A place that makes things: 61% of Mazomanie’s jobs are in goods
702 jobs are based in Mazomanie.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mazomanie, 2014 → 2024: 510 → 702. 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 Mazomanie’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where people from Mazomanie work
Where Mazomanie clocks in
34% of workers
8% 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.
Who commutes out of Mazomanie, and who commutes in
On a workday 858 residents head out to work, 65 work right here, and 637 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Mazomanie on a workday afternoon, 13% fewer than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.76 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
About 25 minutes each way for Mazomanie’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mazomanie workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 735 commuters (the 14% 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 far it is to work from Mazomanie
About 15% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
For most of Mazomanie, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mazomanie is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 6.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 850 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 3.9% of Mazomanie households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Mazomanie’s commuters take a bus or train.
Mazomanie is 1,759th of 6,085 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 39 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 44 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,757 | Ogdensburg NJ | 2,319 | $106K | 7.0% | 10.0% | 5% | B |
| 1,758 | New Stanton PA | 2,338 | $71K | 7.9% | 4.7% | 6% | B |
| 1,759 | Mazomanie WI | 1,746 | $86K | 10.0% | 1.7% | 7% | B |
| 1,760 | Black Diamond FL | 1,298 | $96K | 6.7% | 12.1% | 4% | B |
| 1,761 | Hanover Township IN | 2,183 | $81K | 10.0% | 3.8% | 9% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | 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 Mazomanie, 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 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 Mazomanie: questions
What is the median household income in Mazomanie?
$86,023 (±$17,750) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mazomanie?
10.0%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mazomanie?
25 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mazomanie work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Madison (34%, 19 mi), Middleton (8%, 15 mi), Cross Plains (5%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Mazomanie walkable?
Mazomanie is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.2 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mazomanie without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mazomanie, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mazomanie
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.