Household incomes in Paris top those of 82% of U.S. towns
Only 4% work in Paris itself; outside it, Kenosha draws the most (17%, 7 miles). Poverty touches 6.7% of residents, against 10.6% across Wisconsin. The two grades for Paris are A for jobs and income and C− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Paris, in a few figures
Paris makes and builds things
66% of the jobs based in Paris are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Paris residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 29%. The jobs ↓
Paris and Kenosha trade workers both ways
Kenosha is the top workplace for Paris residents (17%) and also where the most people who work in Paris come from (21% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Most jobs in Paris pay over $40,000 a year
75% of the jobs based in Paris pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), the top earnings band in the Census data. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 609 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Paris earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Paris is better than 89% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Paris’ grade. It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (4.6%) is left out: Paris’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, Paris could be anywhere from B+ to A+.
Factories, building and farms: 66% of the jobs in Paris
641 jobs are based in Paris.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Paris, 2014 → 2024: 562 → 641. 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 Paris’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting out of Paris: the destinations
Where Paris clocks in
17% of workers
5% 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.
Who works in Paris, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 585 residents head out to work, 24 work right here, and 617 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.05 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
A commute of about 22 minutes in Paris
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Paris workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 686 commuters (the 6% 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.
Paris’ commute, mile by mile
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.
Paris is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Paris is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Paris 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 730 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 under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 2.5% of Paris households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Paris’ commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Paris is 279th 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 45 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 49 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 277 | Wilderness Rim WA | 1,560 | $150K | 3.3% | 1.2% | <1% | A |
| 278 | Brown Township OH | 1,187 | $100K | 2.2% | 1.4% | 1% | A |
| 279 | Paris WI | 1,356 | $107K | 6.7% | 4.6% | 4% | A |
| 280 | Marthasville MO | 1,302 | $112K | 2.6% | 1.1% | 1% | A |
| 281 | Hallock Township IL | 1,546 | $151K | 3.9% | 1.8% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Paris, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
19% of Paris works in a bordering town
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Paris workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paris | – | A | C− | 22 min | $106,719 |
| Somers | under 3% | B− | C+ | 25 min | $80,488 |
| Kenosha | 17% | B− | B+ | 24 min | $71,239 |
| Yorkville | under 3% | A− | C+ | 25 min | $122,936 |
| Bristol | under 3% | A | B+ | 26 min | $123,648 |
| Brighton | 2% | A | C− | 26 min | $91,875 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Kenosha. Darker towns draw more of Paris’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 Paris: questions
What is the median household income in Paris?
$106,719 (±$18,994) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Paris?
6.7%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Paris?
22 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Paris work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kenosha (17%, 7 mi), Milwaukee (5%, 31 mi), Pleasant Prairie (4%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Paris walkable?
Paris is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Paris without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Paris, from the people who make the trip.
More of Paris
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.