Photo: TheCatalyst31 · CC BY 4.0Most of Mount Hope commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
Employers in Mount Hope report 15 jobs; 96 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Mount Hope itself; outside it, Prairie du Chien draws the most (19%, 15 miles). Working from home is the commute for 5% of workers, against 13% across Wisconsin.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Mount Hope by day and by night
On a workday 96 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 15 people come in from elsewhere.
About 130 people are in Mount Hope on a workday afternoon, 38% 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 Mount Hope’s working residents head each day
Where Mount Hope clocks in
19% of workers
8% of workers
6% 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.
Mount Hope is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mount Hope, 2013 → 2023: 12 → 15. 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 Mount Hope’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Mount Hope takes about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mount Hope workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 108 commuters (the 5% 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 Mount Hope
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.
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 Mount Hope: questions
What is the median household income in Mount Hope?
$64,063 (±$19,107) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mount Hope?
14.0%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mount Hope?
30 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mount Hope work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Prairie du Chien (19%, 15 mi), Lancaster (8%, 12 mi), Madison (6%, 73 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Mount Hope without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mount Hope, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mount Hope
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.