Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Rushford works elsewhere
There are 76 jobs in Rushford for 741 working residents. Jobs and income earn Rushford B; getting around on foot earns it C+. Only 2% stay in Rushford for work; outside it, Oshkosh is the main destination (22%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Rushford stands out on work
Rushford is a place people come home to
There are 76 jobs based in Rushford, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Rushford has about 1,000 people in it, 39% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Rushford workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 28 minutes each way, against 22 across Wisconsin. Over a year that’s about 215 hours of commuting, 46 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 741 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Rushford: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Rushford is better than 55% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Rushford’s grade up (4.7%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 35% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (1.1%) is left out: Rushford’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, Rushford could be anywhere from C to B+.
Who leaves Rushford for work, and who comes in
On a workday 729 residents head out to work, 12 work right here, and 64 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Rushford on a workday afternoon, 39% 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.
Getting to work from Rushford takes about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Rushford workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 645 commuters (the 11% 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.
Commuting out of Rushford: the destinations
Where Rushford clocks in
22% 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.
Goods, not services: 38% of the jobs in Rushford
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Rushford, 2013 → 2023: 42 → 76. 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 Rushford’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Rushford’s commute, mile by mile
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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Rushford, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Rushford is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 3.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 726 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.6% of Rushford households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Rushford’s commuters take a bus or train.
Rushford next to U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300: 1,877th of 5,760 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 38 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 43 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,875 | Anderson Township IN | 1,227 | $92K | 6.2% | 3.3% | 2% | B |
| 1,876 | Chittenden VT | 1,215 | $106K | 6.6% | 1.2% | 10% | B |
| 1,877 | Rushford WI | 1,690 | $71K | 4.7% | 1.1% | 2% | B |
| 1,878 | Richmond WI | 1,883 | $75K | 7.7% | 4.2% | 1% | B |
| 1,879 | Keenesburg CO | 2,107 | $84K | 10.0% | 2.1% | 4% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | 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 Rushford, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Rushford and its neighbors
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Rushford workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rushford | – | B | C+ | 28 min | $70,521 |
| Omro | under 3% | A+ | C− | 23 min | $120,938 |
| Aurora | under 3% | B+ | C− | 35 min | $87,083 |
| Nepeuskun | under 3% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Poygan | under 3% | A | D− | 31 min | $98,000 |
| Utica | under 3% | A− | C+ | 24 min | $113,875 |
Same-state neighbors only. Nepeuskun: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Rushford’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 Rushford: questions
What is the median household income in Rushford?
$70,521 (±$18,692) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Rushford?
4.7%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Rushford?
28 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Rushford work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Oshkosh (22%, 12 mi), Ripon (5%, 12 mi), Omro (5%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Rushford walkable?
Rushford is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 3.9 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Rushford without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Rushford, from the people who make the trip.
More of Rushford
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.