Most of Oakfield commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
For jobs and income Oakfield is better than 64% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 38% of U.S. towns (C+). There are 209 jobs in Oakfield for 549 working residents. Only 2% work in Oakfield; the top destination outside it is Fond du Lac (27%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Why Oakfield gets the Jobs & income grade it does
Household income is its strongest input ($91,172, U.S. $80,734); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 54% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Oakfield’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Oakfield could be anywhere from C+ to A.
How a workday changes Oakfield
On a workday 539 residents head out to work, 10 work right here, and 199 people come in from elsewhere.
About 730 people are in Oakfield on a workday afternoon, 32% 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 2023, primary jobs.
Where Oakfield’s working residents head each day
Where Oakfield clocks in
27% of workers
4% 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.
The kinds of work in Oakfield
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Oakfield, 2013 → 2023: 207 → 209. 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 Oakfield’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Oakfield: 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 Oakfield workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 532 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.
How many miles Oakfield commutes
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.
For most of Oakfield, work means a drive
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 5.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 592 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). 2.3% of Oakfield households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Oakfield’s commuters take a bus or train.
Oakfield is 637th of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 635 | West Kewaunee WI | 1,289 | $91K | 7.7% | 0.7% | 2% | B |
| 636 | Summerland CA | 1,348 | $96K | 12.2% | 12.0% | 6% | B |
| 637 | Oakfield WI | 1,065 | $91K | 9.0% | 0.0% | 2% | B |
| 638 | Irasburg VT | 1,199 | $99K | 2.5% | 1.8% | 6% | B |
| 639 | Pheasant Run OH | 1,258 | $65K | 4.1% | 5.6% | 0% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 Oakfield, 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 Oakfield: questions
What is the median household income in Oakfield?
$91,172 (±$17,615) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Oakfield?
9.0%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Oakfield?
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 Oakfield work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fond du Lac (27%, 8 mi), Byron (4%, 4 mi), Oshkosh (3%, 23 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Oakfield walkable?
Oakfield is more walkable than 38% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Oakfield 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 Oakfield, from the people who make the trip.
More of Oakfield
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.