Mount Morris has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Employers in Mount Morris report 116 jobs, against 507 working residents. Mount Morris grades C+ for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Only 3% work in Mount Morris; the top destination outside it is Wautoma (9%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Mount Morris apart
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Mount Morris
On income, poverty and job access, Mount Morris is better than 41% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Mount Morris’ grade up (7.3%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 18% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (4.5%) is left out: Mount Morris’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, Mount Morris could be anywhere from C− to B.
In and out of Mount Morris on a workday
On a workday 493 residents head out to work, 14 work right here, and 102 people come in from elsewhere.
About 740 people are in Mount Morris on a workday afternoon, 35% 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 the trip to work from Mount Morris ends
Where Mount Morris clocks in
9% of workers
9% 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.
Mount Morris is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mount Morris, 2013 → 2023: 188 → 116. 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 Morris’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Mount Morris, about 26 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mount Morris workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 394 commuters (the 13% 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.
Miles to work from Mount Morris
About 27% 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.
In Mount Morris, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mount Morris is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 4.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 455 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). 2.0% of Mount Morris households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mount Morris’ commuters take a bus or train.
Mount Morris is 1,624th of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 44 | Big Bend WI | 1,498 | $135K | 3.2% | 0.6% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,622 | Horicon NY | 1,457 | $81K | 6.6% | 6.4% | 7% | C+ |
| 1,623 | Anthony Township PA | 1,472 | $82K | 12.7% | 4.6% | 3% | C+ |
| 1,624 | Mount Morris WI | 1,132 | $73K | 7.3% | 4.5% | 3% | C+ |
| 1,625 | South Wenatchee WA | 1,226 | $64K | 8.8% | 3.3% | <1% | C+ |
| 1,626 | Sweetser IN | 1,069 | $81K | 11.8% | 0.7% | 2% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Mount Morris, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Work in the towns next to Mount Morris
The biggest share goes to Wautoma (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Mount Morris workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Morris | – | C+ | C− | 26 min | $73,224 |
| Marion | under 3% | B− | C+ | 32 min | $83,807 |
| Wautoma | 2% | B− | B− | 21 min | $81,250 |
| Springwater | under 3% | C | D− | 31 min | $71,193 |
| Leon | under 3% | C− | C | 34 min | $67,609 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Mount Morris’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 Morris: questions
What is the median household income in Mount Morris?
$73,224 (±$10,003) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mount Morris?
7.3%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mount Morris?
26 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mount Morris work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wautoma (9%, 6 mi), Oshkosh (9%, 31 mi), Berlin (4%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mount Morris walkable?
Mount Morris is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.5 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mount Morris without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mount Morris, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mount Morris
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.