Photo: User Royalbroil on en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 2.5New Holstein has lower unemployment (0.6%) than 97% of U.S. towns
About one in ten work in New Holstein; the top destination outside it is Kiel (16%, 4 miles). Jobs and income earn New Holstein B+; getting around on foot earns it B+. Household incomes here are lower than in 75% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from New Holstein, in brief
The figures behind New Holstein’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, New Holstein is better than 71% of U.S. towns, #219 of 362 in Wisconsin. Unemployment holds New Holstein’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($59,667, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, New Holstein could be anywhere from B− to A.
Getting to work from New Holstein takes about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of New Holstein workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,528 commuters (the 9% 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.
New Holstein on a workday afternoon
On a workday 1,193 residents head out to work, 128 work right here, and 817 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,700 people are in New Holstein on a workday afternoon, 12% fewer than live here.
0.72 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.
Where the trip to work from New Holstein ends
Where New Holstein clocks in
16% of workers
6% of workers
5% 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.
A place that makes things: 30% of New Holstein’s jobs are in goods
945 jobs are based in New Holstein.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in New Holstein, 2013 → 2023: 1,126 → 945. 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 New Holstein’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from New Holstein
About 18% 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.
Most trips from New Holstein start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, New Holstein is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns, #112 of 362 in Wisconsin. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 6.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,673 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). 2.1% of New Holstein households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of New Holstein’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,771 U.S. towns of 2,100 to 4,100, New Holstein comes 1,232nd on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 38 | Ottawa WI | 3,642 | $153K | 1.0% | 1.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 43 | North Prairie WI | 2,193 | $153K | 2.8% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 52 | Jackson WI | 3,950 | $117K | 0.6% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,230 | Marshall Township MI | 3,162 | $107K | 3.7% | 5.7% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,231 | Canterwood WA | 2,971 | $160K | 4.2% | 8.2% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,232 | New Holstein WI | 3,040 | $60K | 5.1% | 0.6% | 10% | B+ |
| 1,233 | Otisco Township MI | 2,303 | $62K | 3.7% | 1.5% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,234 | Vernon VT | 2,144 | $86K | 5.5% | 1.9% | 6% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,771 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 New Holstein, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
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 New Holstein: questions
What is the median household income in New Holstein?
$59,667 (±$17,038) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in New Holstein?
5.1%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from New Holstein?
28 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in New Holstein work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kiel (16%, 4 mi), Chilton (6%, 6 mi), Fond du Lac (5%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is New Holstein walkable?
New Holstein is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around New Holstein 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 New Holstein, from the people who make the trip.
More of New Holstein
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.