Peshtigo Fire Cemetery · Photo: self · CC BY-SA 2.5Unemployment in Peshtigo (0.9%) is lower than in 95% of U.S. towns
For jobs and income Peshtigo is better than 56% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns (A−). 4% of workers have no commute at all, against 13% across Wisconsin. About one in seven work in Peshtigo itself; outside it, Marinette draws the most (31%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Peshtigo
Short distances, slow trips
Half of Peshtigo’s working residents have a job less than 8 miles away, yet the average commute still takes 31 minutes, longer than the Wisconsin average of 22. Time on the road ↓
Peshtigo and Marinette trade workers both ways
Marinette is the top workplace for Peshtigo residents (31%) and also where the most people who work in Peshtigo come from (13% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Peshtigo makes and builds things
44% of the jobs based in Peshtigo are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Peshtigo residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 36%. The jobs ↓
Few Peshtigo workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 13% across Wisconsin. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Peshtigo
Unemployment holds Peshtigo’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down. It also does well on the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Peshtigo could be anywhere from C to A−.
The trip to work from Peshtigo: about 31 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Peshtigo workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,637 commuters (the 4% 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.
Where Peshtigo’s working residents head each day
Where Peshtigo clocks in
31% of workers
6% 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.
44% of the jobs in Peshtigo make or build things
1,372 jobs are based in Peshtigo.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Peshtigo, 2013 → 2023: 1,503 → 1,372. 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 Peshtigo’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who commutes out of Peshtigo, and who commutes in
On a workday 1,463 residents head out to work, 230 work right here, and 1,142 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 (0.81 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The commute from Peshtigo, by distance
About 24% 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Peshtigo
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 7.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,713 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). 3.6% of Peshtigo households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Peshtigo’s commuters take a bus or train.
Peshtigo next to U.S. towns of 2,400 to 4,600: 1,926th of 4,402 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 42 | Ottawa WI | 3,642 | $153K | 1.0% | 1.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 57 | Jackson WI | 3,950 | $117K | 0.6% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 62 | Bristol WI | 4,347 | $141K | 1.2% | 0.8% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,924 | Potterville MI | 3,135 | $65K | 11.4% | 3.0% | 4% | B |
| 1,925 | Canastota NY | 4,400 | $74K | 10.8% | 3.4% | 8% | B |
| 1,926 | Peshtigo WI | 3,423 | $67K | 9.4% | 0.9% | 14% | B |
| 1,927 | Grand River Township MO | 3,258 | $78K | 8.8% | 2.4% | 13% | B |
| 1,928 | Stanford NY | 3,703 | $89K | 13.8% | 1.3% | 8% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,402 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Peshtigo, 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 Peshtigo: questions
What is the median household income in Peshtigo?
$66,990 (±$17,760) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Peshtigo?
9.4%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Peshtigo?
31 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Peshtigo work?
14% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Marinette (31%, 6 mi), Menominee (6%, 8 mi), Green Bay (6%, 39 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Peshtigo walkable?
Peshtigo is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.6 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Peshtigo without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Peshtigo, from the people who make the trip.
More of Peshtigo
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.