Prentice Co-operative Creamery Company · Photo: Csgaylord · CC BY-SA 3.0There are 1.9 jobs in Prentice for every working resident, and 432 people commute in
About one in seven work in Prentice; the top destination outside it is Phillips (13%, 12 miles). Prentice has 463 jobs for 245 working residents. A typical one-way commute lasts 27 minutes (Wisconsin 22, U.S. 26).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Prentice at work: what stands out
Prentice makes and builds things
65% of the jobs based in Prentice are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Prentice residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 46%. The jobs ↓
Prentice workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 27 minutes each way, against 22 across Wisconsin. Over a year that’s about 207 hours of commuting, 38 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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 245 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Prentice makes things: 65% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Prentice, 2013 → 2023: 531 → 463. 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.
A commute of about 27 minutes in Prentice
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 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 187 commuters (the 11% 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 daily commute in and out of Prentice
On a workday 214 residents head out to work and 31 work right here.
About 770 people are in Prentice on a workday afternoon, 39% more than live here.
1.9 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.
Where the people who work in Prentice live
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.
Where in the region Prentice works
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.
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?
$50,833 (±$17,469) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Prentice?
12.5%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Prentice?
27 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Prentice work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Phillips (13%, 12 mi), Medford (9%, 28 mi), Hawkins (9%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Prentice without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% 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.