Unemployment in Seymour (3.2%) is lower than in 66% of U.S. towns
Seymour grades A− for jobs and income and A− for walkability. For 5% of workers, the job is at home (Wisconsin 13%). About one in seven work in Seymour itself; outside it, Green Bay draws the most (12%, 17 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Seymour apart on work
The figures behind Seymour’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Seymour is better than 79% of U.S. towns, #174 of 362 in Wisconsin. The poverty rate is its strongest input (4.5%, U.S. 12.5%); household income ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns ($80,602, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on household income and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Seymour could be anywhere from B− to A.
How a workday changes Seymour
On a workday 1,584 residents head out to work, 228 work right here, and 1,349 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 (0.87 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.
Where Seymour’s working residents head each day
Where Seymour clocks in
12% of workers
10% 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.
Making and building: 28% of jobs based in Seymour
1,577 jobs are based in Seymour.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Seymour, 2013 → 2023: 1,416 → 1,577. 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 Seymour’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Seymour: about 21 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Seymour workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,942 commuters (the 5% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Seymour
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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Seymour
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Seymour is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns, #78 of 362 in Wisconsin. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 7.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,053 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). 1.9% of Seymour households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Seymour’s commuters take a bus or train.
Seymour is 885th of 4,474 U.S. towns of 2,500 to 4,900 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 43 | Ottawa WI | 3,642 | $153K | 1.0% | 1.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 57 | Jackson WI | 3,950 | $117K | 0.6% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 62 | Bristol WI | 4,347 | $141K | 1.2% | 0.8% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 883 | Proctor MN | 3,054 | $67K | 5.8% | 0.7% | 6% | A− |
| 884 | Dundee OR | 3,193 | $107K | 3.3% | 4.2% | 4% | A− |
| 885 | Seymour WI | 3,628 | $81K | 4.5% | 3.2% | 13% | A− |
| 886 | Hanover Township MI | 3,708 | $81K | 4.6% | 0.2% | 6% | A− |
| 887 | Franklin Township PA | 4,467 | $144K | 4.9% | 3.8% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,474 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Seymour, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Seymour and the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Seymour’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 Seymour: questions
What is the median household income in Seymour?
$80,602 (±$6,793) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Seymour?
4.5%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Seymour?
21 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Seymour work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Green Bay (12%, 17 mi), Appleton (10%, 17 mi), Ashwaubenon (7%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Seymour walkable?
Seymour is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Seymour without a car?
<1% 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 Seymour, from the people who make the trip.
More of Seymour
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.