Most of Medina commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
Jobs and income earn Medina A; getting around on foot earns it B+. Employers in Medina report 140 jobs, and 707 of its residents work somewhere. Measured by household income, Medina is ahead of 77% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Medina stands out on work
38% of Medina works in Madison
266 working residents, 38%, have their main job in Madison, 19 miles away. That’s 19 times as many as work in Medina itself. The commute map ↓
Medina is a place people come home to
There are 140 jobs based in Medina, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Medina has about 730 people in it, 44% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Medina workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 28 minutes each way, against 22 across Wisconsin. Over a year that’s about 215 hours of commuting, 46 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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 707 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Medina’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Medina is better than 94% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate is its strongest input (1.0%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 71% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (0.7%) is left out: Medina’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, Medina could be anywhere from A to A+.
38% of working residents work in Madison
Where Medina clocks in
38% 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.
In and out of Medina on a workday
On a workday 696 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 129 people come in from elsewhere.
About 730 people are in Medina on a workday afternoon, 44% 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 2023, primary jobs.
About 28 minutes each way for Medina’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Medina workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 577 commuters (the 17% 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.
Jobs in Medina: what the 140 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Medina, 2013 → 2023: 118 → 140. 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 Medina’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Medina, 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.
Getting around Medina: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Medina is more walkable than 68% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 11.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 5.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 692 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). 2.1% of Medina households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Medina’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800, Medina comes 169th 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+ |
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| 25 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
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| 45 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 49 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 167 | Menoken Township KS | 1,656 | $120K | 1.0% | 0.0% | 3% | A |
| 168 | Wheatfield Township MI | 1,659 | $117K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A |
| 169 | Medina WI | 1,300 | $100K | 1.0% | 0.7% | 2% | A |
| 170 | Elkhorn CA | 1,664 | $127K | 2.0% | 10.0% | <1% | A |
| 171 | Aurora TX | 1,643 | $106K | 4.9% | 4.7% | 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 Medina, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Medina and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Waterloo (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Medina workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medina | – | A | B+ | 28 min | $99,750 |
| Deerfield | under 2% | A | B− | 23 min | $118,125 |
| Sun Prairie | under 2% | A+ | D | 23 min | $127,321 |
| York | under 2% | — | — | 29 min | — |
| Waterloo | under 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Waterloo | 2% | B+ | C+ | 32 min | $87,776 |
| Cottage Grove | under 2% | B+ | C− | 26 min | $87,218 |
Same-state neighbors only. York and Waterloo: 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 Medina’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 Medina: questions
What is the median household income in Medina?
$99,750 (±$7,555) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Medina?
1.0%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Medina?
28 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Medina work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Madison (38%, 19 mi), Sun Prairie (10%, 9 mi), Marshall (5%, 1 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Medina walkable?
Medina is more walkable than 68% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 5.9 out of 20, and 11% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Medina without a car?
0% 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 Medina, from the people who make the trip.
More of Medina
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.