Meenon’s household incomes are lower than in 69% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 13.3% of residents, against 10.6% across Wisconsin. For jobs and income Meenon is better than 14% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (D). Only 7% work in Meenon; the top destination outside it is Webster (9%, 3 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Meenon apart on work
A big share show a job far from home
32% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
The quickest commute around
Meenon’s 18-minute average trip is shorter than in any town next door, where it runs from 23 to 39 minutes. Next door ↓
The jobs in Meenon pay better than its residents’ jobs
68% of the jobs based in Meenon pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 51% of the jobs Meenon residents hold. 92% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Meenon. 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 391 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Meenon
The poverty rate holds Meenon’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 6% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (6.4%) is left out: Meenon’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, Meenon could be anywhere from D− to C+.
Where in the region Meenon works
About 32% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Meenon
337 jobs are based in Meenon.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Meenon, 2013 → 2023: 308 → 337. 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 Meenon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily flow of workers through Meenon
On a workday 365 residents head out to work, 26 work right here, and 311 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 (0.86 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 people from Meenon work
Where Meenon clocks in
7% 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.
A commute of about 18 minutes in Meenon
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Meenon workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 356 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.
Most of Meenon commutes by car
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 4.8% across Wisconsin.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 402 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). 0.7% of Meenon households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Meenon’s commuters take a bus or train.
Meenon places 3,730th of 4,866 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | 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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| 22 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 42 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,728 | Harrison Township PA | 1,003 | $61K | 11.6% | 4.3% | 9% | D |
| 3,729 | Chelsea VT | 1,252 | $66K | 14.3% | 1.0% | 8% | D |
| 3,730 | Meenon WI | 1,251 | $63K | 13.3% | 6.4% | 7% | D |
| 3,731 | Fayette IA | 1,185 | $48K | 25.7% | 5.4% | 13% | D |
| 3,732 | Port Byron NY | 1,215 | $49K | 24.6% | 5.0% | 4% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Meenon, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Work in the towns next to Meenon
The biggest share goes to Siren (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Meenon workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meenon | – | D | D | 18 min | $62,721 |
| Oakland | under 3% | C− | B+ | 23 min | $62,857 |
| Sand Lake | under 3% | — | — | 31 min | — |
| Siren | 3% | D | B+ | 29 min | $63,438 |
| Lincoln | under 3% | — | — | 39 min | — |
| Jackson | under 3% | — | — | 38 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Sand Lake: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Lincoln and Jackson: 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 Meenon’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 Meenon: questions
What is the median household income in Meenon?
$62,721 (±$13,020) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Meenon?
13.3%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Meenon?
18 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Meenon work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Webster (9%, 3 mi), Siren (7%, 6 mi), Swiss (5%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Meenon walkable?
Meenon is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 6.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Meenon without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Meenon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Meenon
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.