Henry and Barbara Bierbauer House · Photo: Jim Roberts · CC BY-SA 4.0New Lisbon draws 1,380 commuters a day, with 1.8 jobs for every working resident
1,497 jobs are based in New Lisbon for 823 working residents. New Lisbon grades C− for jobs and income and C for walkability. Home is the office for 2% of workers, next to 13% for Wisconsin as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in New Lisbon, in brief
New Lisbon is where the jobs are
New Lisbon has 1,497 jobs, 1.8 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
33% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
New Lisbon makes and builds things
43% of the jobs based in New Lisbon are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs New Lisbon 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 823 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind New Lisbon’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, New Lisbon is better than 24% of U.S. towns, #342 of 362 in Wisconsin. Household income holds New Lisbon’s grade up ($70,855, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (16.4%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (7.5%) is left out: New Lisbon’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, New Lisbon could be anywhere from D to C+.
The workday shuffle in and out of New Lisbon
On a workday 706 residents head out to work and 117 work right here.
About 3,300 people are in New Lisbon on a workday afternoon, 26% more 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.
How many miles New Lisbon commutes
About 33% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 43% of the jobs in New Lisbon
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in New Lisbon, 2013 → 2023: 1,328 → 1,497. 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 Lisbon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where the people who work in New Lisbon live
Where New Lisbon clocks in
22% of workers
5% of workers
3% 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 20 minutes each way for New Lisbon’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of New Lisbon workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 736 commuters (the 2% 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.
Driving is how New Lisbon gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, New Lisbon is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns, #281 of 362 in Wisconsin. Both inputs place New Lisbon near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 750 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). 3.3% of New Lisbon households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of New Lisbon’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,800 to 3,500, New Lisbon ranks 3,718th of 5,083 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 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 36 | North Prairie WI | 2,193 | $153K | 2.8% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 85 | Sun Prairie WI | 2,291 | $127K | 2.0% | 1.8% | 2% | A+ |
| 86 | Verona WI | 2,092 | $150K | 2.6% | 2.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,716 | Bertram TX | 2,142 | $63K | 19.7% | 2.7% | 2% | C− |
| 3,717 | Huntington UT | 1,986 | $77K | 12.0% | 7.8% | 11% | C− |
| 3,718 | New Lisbon WI | 2,577 | $71K | 16.4% | 7.5% | 14% | C− |
| 3,719 | Flora Township IL | 3,011 | $54K | 15.6% | 8.3% | 4% | C− |
| 3,720 | Nevins Township IN | 1,825 | $66K | 13.0% | 9.6% | 1% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,083 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Lisbon, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
New Lisbon and the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | New Lisbon workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Lisbon | – | C− | C | 20 min | $70,855 |
| Lisbon | under 2% | — | — | 21 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Lisbon: the same community as the village of that name, graded once. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of New Lisbon’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 New Lisbon: questions
What is the median household income in New Lisbon?
$70,855 (±$10,225) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in New Lisbon?
16.4%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from New Lisbon?
20 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in New Lisbon work?
14% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mauston (22%, 7 mi), Tomah (5%, 19 mi), Madison (3%, 66 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is New Lisbon walkable?
New Lisbon is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around New Lisbon without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from New Lisbon, from the people who make the trip.
More of New Lisbon
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.