With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Prentice works elsewhere
4% of workers work from home, where Wisconsin as a whole has 13%. Employers in Prentice report 60 jobs, against 184 working residents. Hardly any stay in Prentice for work; outside it, Phillips is the main destination (21%, 15 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Prentice: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 184 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 60 people come in from elsewhere.
About 310 people are in Prentice 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 2023, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Prentice: the destinations
Where Prentice 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.
The kinds of work in Prentice
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Prentice, 2013 → 2023: 38 → 60. 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 Prentice’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Prentice spends getting to work: about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Prentice workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 164 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.
The commute from Prentice, by distance
About 29% 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.
Prentice and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Ogema (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Prentice workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prentice | – | — | — | 29 min | $58,750 |
| Ogema | 3% | — | — | 27 min | — |
| Hackett | under 3% | — | — | 25 min | — |
| Knox | under 3% | — | — | 31 min | — |
| Hill | under 3% | — | — | 27 min | — |
| Catawba | under 3% | — | — | 33 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Ogema, Hackett, Knox, Hill and Catawba: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Prentice’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 Prentice: questions
What is the median household income in Prentice?
$58,750 (±$20,219) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Prentice?
10.2%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Prentice?
29 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Prentice work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Phillips (21%, 15 mi), Medford (7%, 28 mi), Prentice (6%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Prentice without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Prentice, from the people who make the trip.
More of Prentice
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.