Photo: AlexiusHoratius · CC BY-SA 3.0Unemployment in Roberts (0.4%) is lower than in 98% of U.S. towns
Measured by household income, Roberts is ahead of 71% of U.S. towns. For jobs and income Roberts is better than 82% of U.S. towns (A−); for walkability it is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns (C+). Only 5% stay in Roberts for work; outside it, Hudson is the main destination (11%, 9 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Roberts at work: what stands out
Roberts workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 31 minutes each way, against 22 across Wisconsin. Over a year that’s about 238 hours of commuting, 69 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Roberts makes and builds things
41% of the jobs based in Roberts are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Roberts residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 26%. The jobs ↓
Roberts has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Roberts went from 661 in 2013 to 898 in 2023, +36%. The jobs ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Inside Roberts’ Jobs & income grade
Unemployment holds Roberts’ grade up; the poverty rate pulls it down (10.5%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Roberts could be anywhere from B+ to A.
Roberts’ commute takes about 31 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Roberts workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,028 commuters (the 7% 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.
Roberts makes things: 41% of its jobs are in goods
898 jobs are based in Roberts.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Roberts, 2013 → 2023: 661 → 898. 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 Roberts’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The workday shuffle in and out of Roberts
On a workday 1,047 residents head out to work, 50 work right here, and 848 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.82 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The places Roberts commutes to
Where Roberts clocks in
11% of workers
7% of workers
5% 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.
The commute from Roberts, by distance
About 16% 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.
In Roberts, most people drive to work
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,106 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). 0.9% of Roberts households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Roberts’ commuters take a bus or train.
Roberts places 683rd of 5,401 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 36 | North Prairie WI | 2,193 | $153K | 2.8% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 52 | Vandenbroek WI | 1,701 | $129K | 1.6% | 5.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 86 | Sun Prairie WI | 2,291 | $127K | 2.0% | 1.8% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 681 | Stewart Manor NY | 1,925 | $155K | 5.0% | 7.9% | 1% | A− |
| 682 | Uhland TX | 1,958 | $92K | 6.4% | 3.1% | <1% | A− |
| 683 | Roberts WI | 2,493 | $93K | 10.5% | 0.4% | 5% | A− |
| 684 | Hamilton Township PA | 2,778 | $107K | 6.2% | 2.9% | 4% | A− |
| 685 | Jamestown WI | 2,305 | $93K | 3.1% | 1.9% | 5% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,401 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Roberts, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
The towns around Roberts
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Roberts’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 Roberts: questions
What is the median household income in Roberts?
$93,400 (±$12,159) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Roberts?
10.5%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Roberts?
31 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Roberts work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hudson (11%, 9 mi), St. Paul (7%, 27 mi), Baldwin (5%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Roberts walkable?
Roberts is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Roberts without a car?
0% 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 Roberts, from the people who make the trip.
More of Roberts
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.