Most of Pigeon commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Pigeon has 57 jobs, and 419 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for Pigeon are C− for jobs and income and C for walkability. Hardly any work in Pigeon itself; outside it, Whitehall draws the most (29%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Pigeon and work: the main findings
Pigeon is a place people come home to
There are 57 jobs based in Pigeon, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Pigeon has about 670 people in it, 35% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
29% of Pigeon works in Whitehall
123 working residents, 29%, have their main job in Whitehall, 6.2 miles away. That’s 29 times as many as work in Pigeon itself. The commute map ↓
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 419 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Pigeon’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Pigeon is better than 23% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Pigeon’s grade up ($69,844, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (16.3%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (0.4%) is left out: Pigeon’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, Pigeon could be anywhere from D to C+.
In and out of Pigeon on a workday
On a workday 416 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 54 people come in from elsewhere.
About 670 people are in Pigeon on a workday afternoon, 35% 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.
The towns that employ Pigeon’s residents
Where Pigeon clocks in
Lines 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.
42% of the jobs in Pigeon make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pigeon, 2013 → 2023: 46 → 57. 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 Pigeon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Pigeon spends getting to work: about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pigeon workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 417 commuters (the 15% 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.
Half of Pigeon commutes less than 17 miles
About 22% 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.
Most of Pigeon commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Pigeon is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 4.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 490 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). 18.7% of Pigeon households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Pigeon’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Pigeon is 2,012th among 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | 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+ |
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| 17 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 67 | Kaukauna WI | 1,295 | $122K | 2.0% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,010 | Franklin Township OH | 1,175 | $47K | 8.8% | 1.8% | 5% | C− |
| 2,011 | Greene Township PA | 1,032 | $75K | 20.6% | 3.3% | 4% | C− |
| 2,012 | Pigeon WI | 1,031 | $70K | 16.3% | 0.4% | 1% | C− |
| 2,013 | Goreville IL | 1,055 | $69K | 15.2% | 1.1% | 4% | C− |
| 2,014 | Oran MO | 1,195 | $65K | 15.8% | 7.5% | 5% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 Pigeon, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Around Pigeon: the bordering towns
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Pigeon workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pigeon | – | C− | C | 21 min | $69,844 |
| Hale | under 2% | B | C | 31 min | $92,083 |
| Curran | under 2% | — | — | 25 min | — |
| Lincoln | under 2% | — | — | 20 min | — |
| Preston | under 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Northfield | under 2% | — | — | 28 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Curran and Northfield: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Lincoln and Preston: the same communities as the places of those names, graded once. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Pigeon’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 Pigeon: questions
What is the median household income in Pigeon?
$69,844 (±$13,592) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pigeon?
16.3%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pigeon?
21 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pigeon work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Whitehall (29%, 6 mi), Eau Claire (6%, 32 mi), Pigeon Falls (5%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Pigeon walkable?
Pigeon is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 4.3 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pigeon without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 19% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pigeon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pigeon
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.