Mount Ida has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
22% of workers work from home (Wisconsin 13%). 36 jobs are based in Mount Ida for 251 working residents. Hardly any stay in Mount Ida for work; outside it, Fennimore is the main destination (22%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Mount Ida: the gist
Mount Ida is a place people come home to
There are 36 jobs based in Mount Ida, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Mount Ida has about 340 people in it, 38% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Mount Ida and Fennimore trade workers both ways
Fennimore is the top workplace for Mount Ida residents (22%) and also where the most people who work in Mount Ida come from (17% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Home offices are common in Mount Ida
22% of Mount Ida workers work from home, against 13% across Wisconsin. Time on the road ↓
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 251 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The workday shuffle in and out of Mount Ida
On a workday 249 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 34 people come in from elsewhere.
About 340 people are in Mount Ida 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 Ida goes to work
Where Mount Ida clocks in
22% of workers
12% 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.
Each way, about 21 minutes from Mount Ida
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mount Ida workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 210 commuters (the 22% 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.
Goods jobs make up 69% of work in Mount Ida
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mount Ida, 2013 → 2023: 19 → 36. 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 Ida’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Mount Ida’s commute, mile by mile
About 28% 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.
Mount Ida and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to North Lancaster (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Mount Ida workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Ida | – | — | — | 21 min | $66,538 |
| Mount Hope | under 2% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| North Lancaster | 2% | — | — | 18 min | — |
| Fennimore | under 2% | — | — | 21 min | — |
| Marion | under 2% | — | — | 25 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Mount Hope and North Lancaster: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Fennimore and Marion: 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 Mount Ida’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 Mount Ida: questions
What is the median household income in Mount Ida?
$66,538 (±$8,034) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mount Ida?
22.6%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mount Ida?
21 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 22% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mount Ida work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fennimore (22%, 4 mi), Lancaster (12%, 10 mi), Madison (6%, 66 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Mount Ida without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mount Ida, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mount Ida
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.