Morrison has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Household incomes here are higher than in 77% of U.S. towns. 324 jobs are based in Morrison; 820 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Morrison is better than 80% of U.S. towns (A−); for walkability it is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns (C).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Morrison, in a few figures
Income, poverty and work: Morrison’s grade explained
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Morrison’s grade. It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (0.7%) is left out: Morrison’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, Morrison could be anywhere from B to A.
79% of the jobs in Morrison make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Morrison, 2013 → 2023: 253 → 324. 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 Morrison’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How a workday changes Morrison
On a workday 799 residents head out to work, 21 work right here, and 303 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Morrison on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
12% of working residents work in Green Bay
Where Morrison clocks in
12% of workers
8% of workers
8% 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.
Getting to work from Morrison takes about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Morrison workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 842 commuters (the 8% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Morrison
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.
Most of Morrison commutes by car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 3.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 912 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). 2.8% of Morrison households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Morrison’s commuters take a bus or train.
Morrison next to U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300: 666th of 5,760 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 38 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 43 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 664 | Essex Township IL | 1,487 | $101K | 2.5% | 4.7% | 1% | A− |
| 665 | Bel Air MD | 1,837 | $98K | 0.2% | 0.0% | 1% | A− |
| 666 | Morrison WI | 1,706 | $101K | 7.1% | 0.7% | 3% | A− |
| 667 | Kure Beach NC | 2,145 | $104K | 3.9% | 2.3% | 7% | A− |
| 668 | Salem Township OH | 2,112 | $88K | 4.7% | 1.5% | <1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Morrison, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Morrison and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Holland (6%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Morrison workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morrison | – | A− | C | 26 min | $100,682 |
| Cooperstown | under 3% | A− | C− | 23 min | $87,692 |
| Glenmore | under 3% | A | D | 19 min | $100,438 |
| Holland | 6% | B+ | C− | 29 min | $74,706 |
| Wrightstown | under 3% | A | D | 27 min | $108,047 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Morrison’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 Morrison: questions
What is the median household income in Morrison?
$100,682 (±$14,119) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Morrison?
7.1%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Morrison?
26 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Morrison work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Green Bay (12%, 17 mi), Appleton (8%, 22 mi), De Pere (8%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Morrison walkable?
Morrison is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 3.5 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Morrison without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Morrison, from the people who make the trip.
More of Morrison
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.