Lutheran Indian Mission · Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 3.0Red Springs has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Employers in Red Springs report 57 jobs, against 424 working residents. Only 3% work in Red Springs; the top destination outside it is Bartelme (25%, 5 miles). Home is the office for 5% of workers; Wisconsin has 13%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Red Springs
Red Springs is a place people come home to
There are 57 jobs based in Red Springs, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Red Springs has about 630 people in it, 37% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A lot of Red Springs works one town over
33% of working residents work in a town that borders Red Springs: Bartelme (25%) and Menominee (8%). Next door ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 424 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The workday shuffle in and out of Red Springs
On a workday 413 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 46 people come in from elsewhere.
About 630 people are in Red Springs on a workday afternoon, 37% 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 Red Springs work
Where Red Springs clocks in
10% of workers
8% 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.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Red Springs, 2014 → 2024: 85 → 57. 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 Red Springs’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 25 minutes to work from Red Springs
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Red Springs workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 387 commuters (the 5% 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.
How far Red Springs goes to work
About 19% 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.
Red Springs and its neighbors: 33% work next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Red Springs workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red Springs | – | — | — | 25 min | $64,432 |
| Menominee | 8% | D | C | 22 min | $62,108 |
| Bartelme | 25% | — | — | 19 min | — |
| Middle Village | under 2% | — | — | 18 min | — |
| Herman | under 2% | — | — | 28 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Bartelme: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Middle Village: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Herman: the same community as the town of that name, graded once. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Bartelme. Darker towns draw more of Red Springs’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 Red Springs: questions
What is the median household income in Red Springs?
$64,432 (±$9,704) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Red Springs?
17.1%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Red Springs?
25 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Red Springs work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bartelme (25%, 5 mi), Shawano (10%, 14 mi), Menominee (8%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Red Springs without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Red Springs, from the people who make the trip.
More of Red Springs
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.