Patch Grove has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
6 jobs are based in Patch Grove for 70 working residents. Hardly any work in Patch Grove itself; outside it, Prairie du Chien draws the most (11%, 11 miles). 1% of workers have no commute at all (Wisconsin 13%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Patch Grove
On a workday 70 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 6 people come in from elsewhere.
About 130 people are in Patch Grove on a workday afternoon, 33% 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 the trip to work from Patch Grove ends
Where Patch Grove clocks in
11% of workers
10% 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 Patch Grove
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Patch Grove, 2013 → 2023: 15 → 6. 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 Patch Grove’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Patch Grove spends getting to work: about 18 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Patch Grove workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 140 commuters (the 1% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Patch Grove
About 31% 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.
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 Patch Grove: questions
What is the median household income in Patch Grove?
$48,958 (±$8,729) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Patch Grove?
7.9%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Patch Grove?
18 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Patch Grove work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Prairie du Chien (11%, 11 mi), Lancaster (10%, 15 mi), Bloomington (6%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Patch Grove without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Patch Grove, from the people who make the trip.
More of Patch Grove
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.