Households in Quincy have lower incomes than those in 94% of U.S. towns
Only 2% work in Quincy; the top destination outside it is Friendship (9%, 7 miles). Poverty touches 9.0% of residents, against 10.6% across Wisconsin. For jobs and income Quincy is better than 15% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 37% of U.S. towns (C+).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Quincy apart on work
Quincy is a place people come home to
There are 61 jobs based in Quincy, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Quincy has about 790 people in it, 34% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
36% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Quincy 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 479 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Quincy gets the Jobs & income grade it does
The poverty rate holds Quincy’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($42,448, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (0.5%) is left out: Quincy’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, Quincy could be anywhere from D to C.
Quincy by day and by night
On a workday 468 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 50 people come in from elsewhere.
About 790 people are in Quincy on a workday afternoon, 34% fewer than live here.
0.13 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Quincy
About 36% 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.
About 27 minutes each way, longer than most of Wisconsin
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Quincy workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 350 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.
The towns that employ Quincy’s residents
Where Quincy 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.
Inside Quincy’s 61 jobs
61 jobs are based in Quincy.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Quincy, 2013 → 2023: 42 → 61. 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 Quincy’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Most of Quincy commutes by car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.0% 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 412 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). 12.0% of Quincy households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of Quincy’s commuters take a bus or train.
Quincy places 3,256th 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+ |
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| 3,254 | Weare Township MI | 1,256 | $55K | 12.2% | 5.2% | 5% | D |
| 3,255 | Freehold Township PA | 1,168 | $57K | 13.1% | 5.8% | 1% | D |
| 3,256 | Quincy WI | 1,212 | $42K | 9.0% | 0.5% | 2% | D |
| 3,257 | Alamosa East CO | 1,298 | $77K | 27.5% | 0.7% | 3% | D |
| 3,258 | Ashland Heights SD | 1,105 | $57K | 30.7% | 26.0% | 0% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Quincy, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Around Quincy: the bordering towns
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Quincy workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quincy | – | D | C+ | 27 min | $42,448 |
| Germantown | under 2% | C+ | C− | 19 min | $73,571 |
| Marion | under 2% | — | — | 34 min | — |
| Springville | under 2% | C | C | 35 min | $62,667 |
| Easton | under 2% | D | D− | 41 min | $54,405 |
| Strongs Prairie | under 2% | C− | D | 27 min | $65,500 |
| Adams | under 2% | C | C+ | 26 min | $68,571 |
Same-state neighbors only. Marion: the same community as the city of that name, graded once. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Quincy’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 Quincy: questions
What is the median household income in Quincy?
$42,448 (±$9,229) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Quincy?
9.0%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Quincy?
27 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Quincy work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Friendship (9%, 7 mi), Lake Delton (6%, 22 mi), Wisconsin Dells (5%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Quincy walkable?
Quincy is more walkable than 37% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.3 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Quincy without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Quincy, from the people who make the trip.
More of Quincy
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.