Lena Road School · Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 3.0Pound has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Pound has 232 jobs, and 640 of its residents work somewhere. For jobs and income Pound is better than 55% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns (D). Only 3% stay in Pound for work; outside it, Marinette is the main destination (15%, 18 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Pound: the figures worth knowing
Why Pound gets the Jobs & income grade it does
The poverty rate holds Pound’s grade up (7.2%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 32% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (3.4%) is left out: Pound’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, Pound could be anywhere from C to B+.
About 27 minutes each way for Pound’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pound workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 625 commuters (the 9% 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 workday shuffle in and out of Pound
On a workday 618 residents head out to work, 22 work right here, and 210 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Pound on a workday afternoon, 28% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where people from Pound work
Where Pound clocks in
15% of workers
8% of workers
7% 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.
A place that makes things: 79% of Pound’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pound, 2014 → 2024: 149 → 232. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Pound’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Half of Pound commutes less than 21 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Most of Pound commutes by car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 3.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 686 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). 0.9% of Pound households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Pound’s commuters take a bus or train.
Pound places 1,776th of 5,877 on jobs and income 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 26 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 2% | 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% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,774 | New Beaver PA | 1,343 | $61K | 6.6% | 3.5% | 6% | B− |
| 1,775 | Hinsdale MA | 1,880 | $78K | 3.1% | 5.0% | 3% | B− |
| 1,776 | Pound WI | 1,435 | $84K | 7.2% | 3.4% | 3% | B− |
| 1,777 | Shasta CA | 1,387 | $111K | 8.7% | 12.5% | 2% | B− |
| 1,778 | Monroeville IN | 1,355 | $56K | 4.5% | 2.7% | 4% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Pound, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Pound and its neighbors
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Pound workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pound | – | B− | D | 27 min | $84,313 |
| Brazeau | under 3% | C | C− | 32 min | $72,688 |
| Lena | under 3% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Grover | under 3% | C+ | C+ | 19 min | $71,767 |
| Beaver | 3% | C− | D | 31 min | $65,455 |
| Little River | under 3% | A− | B | 25 min | $92,292 |
Same-state neighbors only. Lena: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Beaver. Darker towns draw more of Pound’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 2024, 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 Pound: questions
What is the median household income in Pound?
$84,313 (±$10,658) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pound?
7.2%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pound?
27 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pound work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Marinette (15%, 18 mi), Coleman (8%, 3 mi), Green Bay (7%, 36 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Pound walkable?
Pound is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.4 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pound without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pound, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pound
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.