Rolling has 0.5 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Rolling has 298 jobs for 659 working residents. Jobs and income earn Rolling B+; getting around on foot earns it D. Only 5% stay in Rolling for work; outside it, Antigo is the main destination (32%, 5 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Rolling apart on work
Income, poverty and work: Rolling’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Rolling is better than 67% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Rolling’s grade up (3.6%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 21% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (4.3%) is left out: Rolling’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, Rolling could be anywhere from B to B+.
Out of Rolling to work: where people go
Where Rolling clocks in
32% of workers
8% of workers
3% 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.
Rolling on a workday afternoon
On a workday 629 residents head out to work, 30 work right here, and 268 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Rolling on a workday afternoon, 25% 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.
Rolling works in goods: 62% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Rolling, 2013 → 2023: 334 → 298. 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 Rolling’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Rolling: about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Rolling workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 589 commuters (the 8% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Rolling
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.
In Rolling, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Rolling is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Rolling near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 643 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). 1.2% of Rolling households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Rolling’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000, Rolling ranks 1,274th of 6,308 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 50 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 55 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,272 | Walnut Township IN | 1,369 | $79K | 4.5% | 9.9% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,273 | Bethany Township MI | 1,291 | $80K | 3.8% | 1.4% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,274 | Rolling WI | 1,449 | $95K | 3.6% | 4.3% | 5% | B+ |
| 1,275 | Richmond WI | 1,846 | $86K | 3.8% | 0.6% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,276 | La Honda CA | 1,269 | $250K | 5.0% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | 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 Rolling, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Next door is work for 34% of Rolling
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Rolling workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rolling | – | B+ | D | 21 min | $95,239 |
| Antigo | 32% | D | B+ | 20 min | $45,520 |
| Norwood | 2% | — | — | 27 min | — |
| Aniwa | under 2% | — | — | 31 min | — |
| Harrison | under 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Ackley | under 2% | — | — | 17 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Norwood, Aniwa and Ackley: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Harrison: 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 Antigo. Darker towns draw more of Rolling’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 Rolling: questions
What is the median household income in Rolling?
$95,239 (±$7,724) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Rolling?
3.6%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Rolling?
21 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Rolling work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Antigo (32%, 5 mi), Wausau (8%, 25 mi), Antigo (3%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Rolling walkable?
Rolling is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.9 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Rolling 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 Rolling, from the people who make the trip.
More of Rolling
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.