Photo: Awkwafaba · CC BY-SA 3.0Households in Nashotah earn more than those in 95% of U.S. towns
1.1% of residents live below the poverty line (Wisconsin 10.6%). Jobs and income earn Nashotah A+; getting around on foot earns it A−. For a town this walkable, transit is thin: about 0.3 trips an hour at the evening peak near the typical resident, next to 12.9 in Milwaukee.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Nashotah, in brief
Nashotah makes and builds things
53% of the jobs based in Nashotah are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Nashotah residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 19%. The jobs ↓
Nashotah’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Nashotah is Milwaukee, 22 miles away as the crow flies. 9% of working residents (56) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Nashotah than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Nashotah fell from 528 in 2013 to 371 in 2023, −30%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. 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 605 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Nashotah’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Nashotah is among the top U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Nashotah’s grade. It also does well on household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (0.6%) is left out: Nashotah’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A firm grade. At either end of the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Nashotah stays A+.
Goods, not services: 53% of the jobs in Nashotah
371 jobs are based in Nashotah.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Nashotah, 2013 → 2023: 528 → 371. 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 Nashotah’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Nashotah’s commute, mile by mile
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.
How many people are in Nashotah by day
On a workday 596 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 362 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Nashotah on a workday afternoon, 18% fewer than live here.
0.61 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.
9% of working residents work in Milwaukee
Where Nashotah clocks in
9% 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.
About 22 minutes each way for Nashotah’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Nashotah workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 586 commuters (the 23% 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Nashotah
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Nashotah is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 7.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 7.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 765 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 45% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.4% of Nashotah households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Nashotah’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Nashotah is 25th among 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | Yarrow Point WA | 1,143 | $250K | 4.5% | 2.2% | 0% | A+ |
| 24 | Woodway WA | 1,316 | $205K | 2.1% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 25 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 26 | Norris Canyon CA | 1,014 | $250K | 1.8% | 0.7% | 1% | A+ |
| 27 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 45 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 49 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 61 | Vandenbroek WI | 1,701 | $129K | 1.6% | 5.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Nashotah, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Work in the towns next to Nashotah
The biggest share goes to Delafield (8%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Nashotah’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 Nashotah: questions
What is the median household income in Nashotah?
$148,403 (±$13,109) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Nashotah?
1.1%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Nashotah?
22 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 23% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Nashotah work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Milwaukee (9%, 22 mi), Waukesha (8%, 10 mi), Delafield (8%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Nashotah walkable?
Nashotah is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Nashotah without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and <1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Nashotah, from the people who make the trip.
More of Nashotah
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.