Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 3.0Meeme has 0.5 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Jobs & income A−: better than 76% of U.S. towns on income, poverty and job access.
Walkability C−: more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns.
Household incomes here are higher than in 76% of U.S. towns. Working residents average 22 minutes each way (Wisconsin 22, U.S. 26). Only 2% work in Meeme; the top destination outside it is Sheboygan (15%, 15 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Meeme
Meeme makes and builds things
60% of the jobs based in Meeme are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Meeme residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 41%. The jobs ↓
Meeme and Sheboygan trade workers both ways
Sheboygan is the top workplace for Meeme residents (15%) and also where the most people who work in Meeme come from (12% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
The jobs in Meeme pay better than its residents’ jobs
79% of the jobs based in Meeme pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 62% of the jobs Meeme residents hold. 95% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Meeme. The jobs ↓
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 745 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Meeme’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Meeme is better than 76% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Meeme’s grade up (4.2%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 41% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (1.3%) is left out: Meeme’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, Meeme could be anywhere from B to A.
Meeme makes things: 60% of its jobs are in goods
391 jobs are based in Meeme. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Meeme’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Meeme, 2013 → 2023: 267 → 391. 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.
15% of working residents work in Sheboygan
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Meeme clocks in
15% of workers
8% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Meeme quiets down on a workday
On a workday 727 residents head out to work, 18 work right here, and 373 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Meeme on a workday afternoon, 24% fewer than live here.
0.52 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.
About 22 minutes each way, about the WI average
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Meeme workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 775 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.
Half of Meeme commutes less than 15 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Most trips from Meeme start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Meeme is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 2.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 837 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). 4.4% of Meeme households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Meeme’s commuters take a bus or train.
Meeme is 803rd of 6,308 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Meeme, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 50 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 55 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 801 | Lyndeborough NH | 1,730 | $117K | 3.7% | 9.8% | 4% | A− |
| 802 | Union Township PA | 1,612 | $89K | 3.5% | 1.3% | 2% | A− |
| 803 | Meeme WI | 1,446 | $99K | 4.2% | 1.3% | 2% | A− |
| 804 | Lookout Mountain GA | 1,662 | $158K | 2.2% | 1.6% | 3% | A− |
| 805 | Alton IA | 1,254 | $98K | 2.6% | 2.5% | 4% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | 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.
Meeme and the towns next door
Darker towns draw more of Meeme’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Meeme workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meeme | – | A− | C− | 22 min | $98,750 |
| Herman | under 3% | A− | B+ | 17 min | $104,615 |
| Liberty | under 3% | B+ | D | 20 min | $87,656 |
| Centerville | under 3% | — | — | 16 min | — |
| Schleswig | under 3% | B+ | C− | 22 min | $91,574 |
Same-state neighbors only. Centerville: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
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 Meeme: questions
What is the median household income in Meeme?
$98,750 (±$22,606) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Meeme?
4.2%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Meeme?
22 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Meeme work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sheboygan (15%, 15 mi), Manitowoc (9%, 15 mi), Kiel (8%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Meeme walkable?
Meeme is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 2.9 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Meeme without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Meeme, from the people who make the trip.
More of Meeme
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.