Charles Foote House · Photo: Jeff the quiet · CC0Most of Pine Valley commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
There are 201 jobs in Pine Valley; 449 of its residents have a job. Pine Valley grades B for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Only 2% stay in Pine Valley for work; outside it, Neillsville is the main destination (31%, 2 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Pine Valley: the gist
31% of Pine Valley works in Neillsville
139 working residents, 31%, have their main job in Neillsville, 1.6 miles away. That’s 16 times as many as work in Pine Valley itself. The commute map ↓
The quickest commute around
Pine Valley’s 18-minute average trip is shorter than in any town next door, where it runs from 23 to 35 minutes. Next door ↓
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 449 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Pine Valley earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Pine Valley is better than 59% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Pine Valley’s grade up (3.9%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 15% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (1.8%) is left out: Pine Valley’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, Pine Valley could be anywhere from B− to B+.
The towns that employ Pine Valley’s residents
Where Pine Valley 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.
How a workday changes Pine Valley
On a workday 440 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 192 people come in from elsewhere.
About 960 people are in Pine Valley on a workday afternoon, 21% 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.
65% of the jobs in Pine Valley pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pine Valley, 2013 → 2023: 91 → 201. 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 Pine Valley’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Pine Valley spends getting to work: about 18 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pine Valley workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 702 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.
Pine Valley’s commute, mile by mile
About 25% 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.
Driving is how Pine Valley gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Pine Valley is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 6.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 744 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). 2.9% of Pine Valley households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Pine Valley’s commuters take a bus or train.
Pine Valley places 1,094th of 4,312 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | 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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| 21 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 37 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 51 | Big Bend WI | 1,498 | $135K | 3.2% | 0.6% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,092 | Saluda Township IN | 1,383 | $78K | 3.0% | 7.0% | 1% | B |
| 1,093 | Flatrock Township OH | 1,218 | $106K | 8.6% | 10.7% | 1% | B |
| 1,094 | Pine Valley WI | 1,208 | $87K | 3.9% | 1.8% | 2% | B |
| 1,095 | Lincoln Township SD | 1,159 | $79K | 11.9% | 0.0% | <1% | B |
| 1,096 | Bergen NY | 1,242 | $89K | 14.9% | 2.3% | 3% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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 Pine Valley, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Around Pine Valley: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Levis (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Pine Valley workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pine Valley | – | B | B− | 18 min | $87,171 |
| Weston | under 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Hewett | under 2% | — | — | 35 min | — |
| Levis | 3% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Grant | under 2% | — | — | 25 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Weston and Grant: the same communities as the places of those names, graded once. Hewett and Levis: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Pine Valley’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 Pine Valley: questions
What is the median household income in Pine Valley?
$87,171 (±$8,058) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pine Valley?
3.9%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pine Valley?
18 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pine Valley work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Neillsville (31%, 2 mi), Black River Falls (4%, 21 mi), Eaton (4%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Pine Valley walkable?
Pine Valley is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.2 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pine Valley without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pine Valley, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pine Valley
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.