Lidice Memorial · Photo: Royalbroil · Public domainHouseholds in Phillips earn less than those in 91% of U.S. towns
The poverty rate is 19.2%, next to 10.6% for Wisconsin as a whole. Jobs and income earn Phillips D−; getting around on foot earns it A−. About two in five work in Phillips itself; outside it, Worcester draws the most (7%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Phillips: the figures worth knowing
Phillips is where the jobs are
Phillips has 1,846 jobs, 2.9 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 2,700 people are in town, 80% more than the 1,500 who live here. Day and night ↓
Phillips makes and builds things
45% of the jobs based in Phillips are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Phillips residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 40%. The jobs ↓
A big share show a job far from home
33% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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 648 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The figures behind Phillips’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Phillips is better than 3% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Phillips’ grade.
Unemployment (4.8%) is left out: Phillips’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, Phillips could be anywhere from D− to D.
Who leaves Phillips for work, and who comes in
On a workday 398 residents head out to work, 250 work right here, and 1,596 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,700 people are in Phillips on a workday afternoon, 80% more than live here.
2.8 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Phillips works in goods: 45% of its jobs
1,846 jobs are based in Phillips.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Phillips, 2013 → 2023: 1,861 → 1,846. 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 Phillips’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Phillips
About 33% 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.
Where the people who work in Phillips live
Where Phillips clocks in
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.
About 21 minutes each way, about the WI average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Phillips workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 580 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.
Phillips is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Phillips is more walkable than 78% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 8.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 7.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 615 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). 9.4% of Phillips households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Phillips’ commuters take a bus or train.
How Phillips compares with U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 50 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 55 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,941 | Okeene OK | 1,047 | $58K | 30.6% | 10.5% | 30% | D− |
| 5,942 | Chesterfield SC | 1,357 | $45K | 28.3% | 10.0% | 9% | D− |
| 5,943 | Phillips WI | 1,492 | $47K | 19.2% | 4.8% | 39% | D− |
| 5,944 | Hanover Township IL | 1,150 | $44K | 19.3% | 8.1% | 3% | D− |
| 5,945 | Allouez Township MI | 1,525 | $45K | 17.7% | 1.9% | 7% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | 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 Phillips, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Phillips and its neighbors
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Worcester. Darker towns draw more of Phillips’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 Phillips: questions
What is the median household income in Phillips?
$47,059 (±$8,742) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Phillips?
19.2%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Phillips?
21 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Phillips work?
39% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Worcester (7%, 6 mi), Park Falls (4%, 17 mi), Medford (3%, 39 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Phillips walkable?
Phillips is more walkable than 78% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Phillips without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Phillips, from the people who make the trip.
More of Phillips
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.