With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Oak Grove works elsewhere
The two grades for Oak Grove are C+ for jobs and income and B for walkability. There are 234 jobs in Oak Grove, against 455 working residents. Hardly any work in Oak Grove; the top destination outside it is Juneau (13%, 2 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Oak Grove
On income, poverty and job access, Oak Grove is better than 37% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Oak Grove’s grade up ($75,781, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (16.6%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (1.8%) is left out: Oak Grove’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, Oak Grove could be anywhere from C− to B+.
Who works in Oak Grove, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 451 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 230 people come in from elsewhere.
About 800 people are in Oak Grove on a workday afternoon, 22% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Oak Grove: the destinations
Where Oak Grove clocks in
13% of workers
8% of workers
7% 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.
In Oak Grove, 71% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Oak Grove, 2014 → 2024: 207 → 234. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Oak Grove’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Oak Grove: about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Oak Grove workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 421 commuters (the 10% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Oak Grove
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Few in Oak Grove walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Oak Grove is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 6.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 469 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). 1.4% of Oak Grove households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Oak Grove’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Oak Grove ranks: 1,464th of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 67 | Kaukauna WI | 1,295 | $122K | 2.0% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,462 | Townshend VT | 1,259 | $79K | 8.1% | 1.8% | 12% | C+ |
| 1,463 | Rock Hall MD | 1,208 | $75K | 7.6% | 1.3% | 16% | C+ |
| 1,464 | Oak Grove WI | 1,020 | $76K | 16.6% | 1.8% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,465 | Warren IL | 1,275 | $76K | 9.9% | 2.7% | 8% | C+ |
| 1,466 | Auburn KS | 1,272 | $58K | 10.9% | 4.8% | 2% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Oak Grove, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Around Oak Grove: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Horicon (7%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Oak Grove workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Grove | – | C+ | B | 21 min | $75,781 |
| Horicon | 7% | C | B− | 21 min | $53,465 |
| Clyman | under 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Beaver Dam | under 2% | B+ | B | 20 min | $82,163 |
| Hubbard | under 2% | B+ | D | 28 min | $91,215 |
| Lowell | under 2% | B+ | C | 30 min | $95,592 |
Same-state neighbors only. Clyman: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Oak Grove’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 2024, 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 Oak Grove: questions
What is the median household income in Oak Grove?
$75,781 (±$7,045) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Oak Grove?
16.6%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Oak Grove?
21 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Oak Grove work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Juneau (13%, 2 mi), Beaver Dam (8%, 6 mi), Horicon (7%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Oak Grove walkable?
Oak Grove is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.0 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Oak Grove without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Oak Grove, from the people who make the trip.
More of Oak Grove
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.