Households in Mishicot have lower incomes than those in 67% of U.S. towns
Mishicot grades B− for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Below the poverty line: 7.2% of residents, next to 10.6% for Wisconsin as a whole. Only 4% work in Mishicot itself; outside it, Manitowoc draws the most (27%, 9 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Mishicot apart
Mishicot and Manitowoc trade workers both ways
Manitowoc is the top workplace for Mishicot residents (27%) and also where the most people who work in Mishicot come from (10% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Mishicot
60% of Mishicot residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 40% of the jobs based in Mishicot pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 96% leave town for their job. 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 645 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Mishicot earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Mishicot is better than 51% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Mishicot’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($64,554, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (1.3%) is left out: Mishicot’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, Mishicot could be anywhere from C+ to B+.
Where the trip to work from Mishicot ends
Where Mishicot clocks in
13% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Mishicot
379 jobs are based in Mishicot.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mishicot, 2013 → 2023: 415 → 379. 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 Mishicot’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Mishicot by day
On a workday 621 residents head out to work, 24 work right here, and 355 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Mishicot on a workday afternoon, 19% fewer than live here.
0.59 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.
A commute of about 26 minutes in Mishicot
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mishicot workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 709 commuters (the 6% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Mishicot
About 15% 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.
Driving is how Mishicot gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mishicot is more walkable than 47% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 5.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 757 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 Mishicot households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Mishicot’s commuters take a bus or train.
Mishicot next to U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900: 1,976th of 5,877 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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| 26 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 50 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,974 | Grass Valley NV | 1,134 | $80K | 2.5% | 4.7% | 0% | B− |
| 1,975 | Harristown IL | 1,247 | $72K | 9.5% | 5.5% | 4% | B− |
| 1,976 | Mishicot WI | 1,428 | $65K | 7.2% | 1.3% | 4% | B− |
| 1,977 | Mottville Township MI | 1,436 | $70K | 10.1% | 6.0% | 4% | B− |
| 1,978 | Cherry Valley NY | 1,223 | $93K | 5.7% | 5.2% | 10% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | 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 Mishicot, 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 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 Mishicot: questions
What is the median household income in Mishicot?
$64,554 (±$9,863) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mishicot?
7.2%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mishicot?
26 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mishicot work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Manitowoc (27%, 9 mi), Two Rivers (13%, 6 mi), Green Bay (5%, 26 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mishicot walkable?
Mishicot is more walkable than 47% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.5 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mishicot without a car?
<1% 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 Mishicot, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mishicot
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.