Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Pensaukee works elsewhere
Jobs and income earn Pensaukee B+; getting around on foot earns it C+. Pensaukee has 66 jobs for 618 working residents. Hardly any stay in Pensaukee for work; outside it, Green Bay is the main destination (19%, 19 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Pensaukee and work: the main findings
Pensaukee is a place people come home to
There are 66 jobs based in Pensaukee, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Pensaukee has about 840 people in it, 40% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Pensaukee workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 27 minutes each way, against 22 across Wisconsin. Over a year that’s about 207 hours of commuting, 38 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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 618 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Pensaukee’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Pensaukee is better than 68% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate is its strongest input (5.9%, U.S. 12.5%); 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 household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (1.4%) is left out: Pensaukee’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, Pensaukee could be anywhere from B− to A−.
The daily flow of workers through Pensaukee
On a workday 613 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 61 people come in from elsewhere.
About 840 people are in Pensaukee on a workday afternoon, 40% 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.
From Pensaukee, about 27 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pensaukee workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 647 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.
The places Pensaukee commutes to
Where Pensaukee clocks in
19% of workers
6% 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.
Jobs in Pensaukee: what the 66 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pensaukee, 2013 → 2023: 78 → 66. 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 Pensaukee’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Pensaukee to work
About 20% 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.
Pensaukee is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Pensaukee is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Pensaukee 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 719 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). 2.2% of Pensaukee households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Pensaukee’s commuters take a bus or train.
1,154th of 5,877: where Pensaukee ranks among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 50 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,152 | Monroe Township OH | 1,091 | $86K | 4.6% | 9.7% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,153 | Hawthorne WI | 1,021 | $102K | 4.7% | 5.6% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,154 | Pensaukee WI | 1,394 | $80K | 5.9% | 1.4% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,155 | Flowerfield Township MI | 1,607 | $82K | 5.8% | 1.8% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,156 | Liberty Township PA | 1,468 | $79K | 4.3% | 2.1% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | 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 Pensaukee, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Next door to Pensaukee
The biggest share goes to Abrams (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Pensaukee workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pensaukee | – | B+ | C+ | 27 min | $80,298 |
| Abrams | 3% | A | C− | 28 min | $103,750 |
| Oconto | under 2% | B | C+ | 33 min | $93,125 |
| Little Suamico | under 2% | A | D | 30 min | $112,391 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Pensaukee’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 Pensaukee: questions
What is the median household income in Pensaukee?
$80,298 (±$7,526) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pensaukee?
5.9%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pensaukee?
27 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pensaukee work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Green Bay (19%, 19 mi), Ashwaubenon (7%, 23 mi), Oconto (6%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Pensaukee walkable?
Pensaukee is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 6.6 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pensaukee 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 Pensaukee, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pensaukee
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.