Photo: User:JeremyA · CC BY-SA 3.0Unemployment in Mineral Point (0.8%) is lower than in 96% of U.S. towns
About one in five stay in Mineral Point for work; outside it, Dodgeville is the main destination (17%, 8 miles). For jobs and income Mineral Point is better than 74% of U.S. towns (B+); for walkability it is more walkable than 72% of U.S. towns (B+). Working residents average 22 minutes each way, about the same as across Wisconsin.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Mineral Point in brief
Mineral Point trades workers with the towns around it
Mineral Point has about as many jobs (1,593) as working residents (1,357), but they are mostly different people: 1,076 residents leave for work each day while 1,312 people come in. Only 18% of the jobs in Mineral Point are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Mineral Point makes and builds things
55% of the jobs based in Mineral Point are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Mineral Point residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 22%. The jobs ↓
Most jobs in Mineral Point pay over $40,000 a year
72% of the jobs based in Mineral Point pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), the top earnings band in the Census data. 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.
Inside Mineral Point’s Jobs & income grade
Unemployment holds Mineral Point’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 20% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Mineral Point could be anywhere from B to A−.
Who leaves Mineral Point for work, and who comes in
On a workday 1,076 residents head out to work, 281 work right here, and 1,312 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 (1.17 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.
Mineral Point makes things: 55% of its jobs are in goods
1,593 jobs are based in Mineral Point.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mineral Point, 2014 → 2024: 1,361 → 1,593. 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 Mineral Point’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where people from Mineral Point work
Where Mineral Point clocks in
17% of workers
12% 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.
Time on the road from Mineral Point: about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mineral Point workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,212 commuters (the 10% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Mineral Point
About 17% 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.
In Mineral Point, most people drive to work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 8.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 6.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,342 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). 1.4% of Mineral Point households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mineral Point’s commuters take a bus or train.
1,022nd of 4,868: where Mineral Point ranks among U.S. towns of 1,800 to 3,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | North Prairie WI | 2,193 | $153K | 2.8% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 79 | Sun Prairie WI | 2,291 | $127K | 2.0% | 1.8% | 3% | A+ |
| 80 | Verona WI | 2,092 | $150K | 2.6% | 2.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,020 | Casa Conejo CA | 2,671 | $148K | 4.2% | 10.4% | <1% | B+ |
| 1,021 | Willow Grove TX | 2,080 | $89K | 7.3% | 1.3% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,022 | Mineral Point WI | 2,555 | $81K | 3.5% | 0.8% | 21% | B+ |
| 1,023 | Pleasant Township IN | 3,092 | $76K | 4.9% | 3.6% | 6% | B+ |
| 1,024 | Sennett NY | 3,258 | $102K | 5.1% | 4.1% | 6% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,868 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 61% | 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 Mineral Point, 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 Mineral Point: questions
What is the median household income in Mineral Point?
$81,000 (±$14,942) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mineral Point?
3.5%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mineral Point?
22 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mineral Point work?
21% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dodgeville (17%, 8 mi), Madison (12%, 41 mi), Platteville (4%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Mineral Point walkable?
Mineral Point is more walkable than 72% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.5 out of 20, and 9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mineral Point 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 Mineral Point, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mineral Point
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.