Black Oak School · Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 3.0Work means Oshkosh for about half of Nekimi’s working residents
Measured by household income, Nekimi is ahead of 74% of U.S. towns. Nekimi grades A− for jobs and income and C for walkability. Working residents average 19 minutes each way, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Nekimi at work: what stands out
Nekimi makes and builds things
44% of the jobs based in Nekimi are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Nekimi residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 30%. 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 671 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Nekimi gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Nekimi is better than 85% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Nekimi’s grade. It also does well on household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (3.3%) is left out: Nekimi’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, Nekimi could be anywhere from B+ to A.
Commuting out of Nekimi: the destinations
Where Nekimi clocks in
45% 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.
Goods jobs make up 44% of work in Nekimi
347 jobs are based in Nekimi.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Nekimi, 2013 → 2023: 238 → 347. 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 Nekimi’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The workday shuffle in and out of Nekimi
On a workday 663 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 339 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Nekimi on a workday afternoon, 24% fewer than live here.
0.52 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.
A commute of about 19 minutes in Nekimi
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Nekimi workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 524 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Nekimi
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 Nekimi, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Nekimi is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 5.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 571 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 1.4 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 63% 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). 3.2% of Nekimi households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Nekimi’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Nekimi ranks: 392nd of 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+ |
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| 25 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
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| 45 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
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| 49 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
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| 390 | Litchfield CT | 1,220 | $110K | 6.1% | 6.5% | 3% | A− |
| 391 | Baltic SD | 1,344 | $108K | 1.2% | 2.7% | 2% | A− |
| 392 | Nekimi WI | 1,335 | $97K | 5.0% | 3.3% | 1% | A− |
| 393 | Thompson ND | 1,100 | $118K | 1.5% | 0.6% | 2% | A− |
| 394 | Palm Valley TX | 1,340 | $99K | 2.6% | 4.2% | 2% | 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 Nekimi, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
The towns next door employ 45% of Nekimi
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Nekimi workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nekimi | – | A− | C | 19 min | $97,000 |
| Oshkosh | 45% | B− | A | 18 min | $62,188 |
| Eldorado | under 2% | A | D | 23 min | $105,078 |
| Utica | under 2% | A− | C+ | 24 min | $113,875 |
| Black Wolf | under 2% | A | C− | 23 min | $98,669 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Oshkosh. Darker towns draw more of Nekimi’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 Nekimi: questions
What is the median household income in Nekimi?
$97,000 (±$12,235) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Nekimi?
5.0%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Nekimi?
19 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Nekimi work?
1% work in town.
Is Nekimi walkable?
Nekimi is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Nekimi without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Nekimi, from the people who make the trip.
More of Nekimi
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.