With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Ringle works elsewhere
186 jobs are based in Ringle for 797 working residents. Ringle grades A− for jobs and income and D for walkability. Only 1% work in Ringle; the top destination outside it is Wausau (23%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Ringle: the gist
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Ringle
On income, poverty and job access, Ringle is better than 78% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Ringle’s grade up (2.6%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 41% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (5.2%) is left out: Ringle’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, Ringle could be anywhere from B+ to A−.
A workday in Ringle: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 786 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 175 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Ringle on a workday afternoon, 35% 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 Ringle: the destinations
Where Ringle clocks in
23% 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 Ringle, 2013 → 2023: 99 → 186. 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 Ringle’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 22 minutes to work from Ringle
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ringle workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 552 commuters (the 13% 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 many miles Ringle commutes
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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Most trips from Ringle start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Ringle is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 4.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 634 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). 0.6% of Ringle households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Ringle’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ringle next to U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400: 839th of 6,085 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 39 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 44 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 837 | South Amherst OH | 1,488 | $86K | 6.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A− |
| 838 | Van Buren Township IN | 1,969 | $94K | 4.9% | 0.0% | 1% | A− |
| 839 | Ringle WI | 1,763 | $92K | 2.6% | 5.2% | 1% | A− |
| 840 | Pine River WI | 1,845 | $110K | 3.7% | 4.3% | 2% | A− |
| 841 | Anson WI | 2,330 | $83K | 4.5% | 1.3% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Ringle, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
14% of Ringle works in a town next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Ringle workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ringle | – | A− | D | 22 min | $91,625 |
| Norrie | under 2% | B | C | 36 min | $92,778 |
| Reid | under 2% | B− | C+ | 26 min | $87,083 |
| Easton | under 2% | B+ | D | 24 min | $104,643 |
| Hatley | under 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Weston | 14% | A− | B− | 18 min | $78,207 |
| Weston | under 2% | — | — | 18 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Hatley: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Weston: the same community as the village of that name, graded once. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Weston. Darker towns draw more of Ringle’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 Ringle: questions
What is the median household income in Ringle?
$91,625 (±$3,935) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ringle?
2.6%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ringle?
22 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ringle work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wausau (23%, 12 mi), Weston (14%, 6 mi), Schofield (6%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Ringle walkable?
Ringle is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ringle without a car?
1% 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 Ringle, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ringle
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.