Milltown has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
Only 3% work in Milltown itself; outside it, St. Croix Falls draws the most (8%, 10 miles). 315 jobs are based in Milltown for 591 working residents. For jobs and income Milltown is better than 13% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns (B).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Milltown at work: what stands out
Milltown workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 39 minutes each way, against 22 across Wisconsin. Over a year that’s about 299 hours of commuting, 130 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
A big share show a job far from home
31% 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 ↓
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 591 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Milltown gets the Jobs & income grade it does
Household income holds Milltown’s grade up ($63,889, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down.
Unemployment (2.4%) is left out: Milltown’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, Milltown could be anywhere from D− to C+.
About 39 minutes each way for Milltown’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Milltown workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 476 commuters (the 13% 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 Milltown
About 31% 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.
Milltown quiets down on a workday
On a workday 572 residents head out to work, 19 work right here, and 296 people come in from elsewhere.
About 960 people are in Milltown on a workday afternoon, 22% 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.
Where Milltown goes to work
Where Milltown clocks in
6% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Milltown
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Milltown, 2013 → 2023: 257 → 315. 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 Milltown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Milltown is a driving town
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.3% 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 549 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). 5.1% of Milltown households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Milltown’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Milltown is 3,789th among 4,866 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,787 | Dafter Township MI | 1,333 | $66K | 16.0% | 2.1% | 2% | D |
| 3,788 | Bay Mills Township MI | 1,623 | $61K | 12.5% | 6.9% | 50% | D |
| 3,789 | Milltown WI | 1,236 | $64K | 16.4% | 2.4% | 3% | D |
| 3,790 | Casa Blanca AZ | 1,697 | $30K | 54.0% | 10.4% | 10% | D |
| 3,791 | West Blocton AL | 1,194 | $41K | 24.0% | 10.1% | 3% | 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 Milltown, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
How Milltown compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Balsam Lake (6%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Milltown workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milltown | – | D | B | 39 min | $63,889 |
| Balsam Lake | 6% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Eureka | under 2% | B− | D | 32 min | $87,642 |
| Balsam Lake | under 2% | B− | B− | 29 min | $89,167 |
| Luck | under 2% | — | — | 28 min | — |
| Georgetown | under 2% | B− | C+ | 37 min | $77,308 |
| Luck | 3% | C | B | 26 min | $68,606 |
Same-state neighbors only. Balsam Lake and Luck: 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 Milltown’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 Milltown: questions
What is the median household income in Milltown?
$63,889 (±$8,583) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Milltown?
16.4%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Milltown?
39 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Milltown work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are St. Croix Falls (8%, 10 mi), Balsam Lake (6%, 3 mi), Osceola (4%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Milltown walkable?
Milltown is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.9 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Milltown 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 Milltown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Milltown
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.