Saxeville has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
For 4% of workers, the job is at home (Wisconsin 13%). Employers in Saxeville report 74 jobs, against 509 working residents. Jobs and income earn Saxeville C+; getting around on foot earns it C−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Saxeville, in a few figures
Saxeville workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 41 minutes each way, against 22 across Wisconsin. Over a year that’s about 314 hours of commuting, 146 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Saxeville is a place people come home to
There are 74 jobs based in Saxeville, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Saxeville has about 590 people in it, 42% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Saxeville’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Saxeville is Oshkosh, 27 miles away as the crow flies. 9% of working residents (46) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
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 509 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Saxeville gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Saxeville is better than 38% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Saxeville’s grade up (7.2%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 15% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (3.4%) is left out: Saxeville’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, Saxeville could be anywhere from C− to B.
From Saxeville, about 41 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Saxeville workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 374 commuters (the 4% 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.
Who leaves Saxeville for work, and who comes in
On a workday 501 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 66 people come in from elsewhere.
About 590 people are in Saxeville on a workday afternoon, 42% 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.
Where in the region Saxeville works
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.
9% of working residents work in Oshkosh
Where Saxeville clocks in
9% of workers
8% 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.
A place that makes things: 55% of Saxeville’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Saxeville, 2013 → 2023: 136 → 74. 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 Saxeville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In Saxeville, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Saxeville is more walkable than 15% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 3.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 388 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). 1.5% of Saxeville households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Saxeville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Saxeville is 1,433rd among 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 67 | Kaukauna WI | 1,295 | $122K | 2.0% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,431 | Ursa Township IL | 1,088 | $67K | 7.5% | 4.6% | 3% | C+ |
| 1,432 | Wiconisco Township PA | 1,157 | $68K | 7.5% | 7.2% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,433 | Saxeville WI | 1,026 | $72K | 7.2% | 3.4% | 2% | C+ |
| 1,434 | Papaikou HI | 1,332 | $79K | 10.9% | 3.4% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,435 | Raleigh Township IL | 1,062 | $91K | 13.0% | 5.5% | <1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 Saxeville, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Work in the towns next to Saxeville
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Saxeville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saxeville | – | C+ | C− | 41 min | $71,806 |
| Leon | under 3% | C− | C | 34 min | $67,609 |
| Bloomfield | under 3% | B | D | 25 min | $83,056 |
| Pine River | under 3% | — | — | 43 min | — |
| Poy Sippi | under 3% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Lind | under 3% | B− | C+ | 22 min | $78,636 |
| Springwater | under 3% | C | D− | 31 min | $71,193 |
Same-state neighbors only. Pine River: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Poy Sippi: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Saxeville’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 Saxeville: questions
What is the median household income in Saxeville?
$71,806 (±$17,506) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Saxeville?
7.2%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Saxeville?
41 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Saxeville work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Oshkosh (9%, 27 mi), Waupaca (8%, 11 mi), Appleton (5%, 33 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Saxeville walkable?
Saxeville is more walkable than 15% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 3.7 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Saxeville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Saxeville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Saxeville
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.