Photo: Loreengloria6 · CC BY-SA 3.0Sharon has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
The two grades for Sharon are C+ for jobs and income and C− for walkability. 247 jobs are based in Sharon; 776 of its residents have a job. Only 2% work in Sharon; the top destination outside it is Delavan (12%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Sharon apart on work
Income, poverty and work: Sharon’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Sharon is better than 38% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Sharon’s grade.
Unemployment (4.0%) is left out: Sharon’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, Sharon could be anywhere from C− to B.
About 28 minutes each way, longer than most of Wisconsin
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sharon workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 824 commuters (the 6% 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.
Sharon by day and by night
On a workday 761 residents head out to work, 15 work right here, and 232 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Sharon on a workday afternoon, 34% 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 the trip to work from Sharon ends
Where Sharon clocks in
12% of workers
8% of workers
6% 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: 40% of jobs based in Sharon
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sharon, 2013 → 2023: 179 → 247. 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 Sharon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Sharon works
About 18% 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.
Most of Sharon commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Sharon is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 4.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 878 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). 6.5% of Sharon households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Sharon’s commuters take a bus or train.
Sharon next to U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100: 2,841st of 5,794 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 42 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 47 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,839 | Castle Dale UT | 1,547 | $83K | 8.0% | 2.1% | 19% | C+ |
| 2,840 | Hilbert WI | 1,237 | $61K | 14.3% | 1.3% | 7% | C+ |
| 2,841 | Sharon WI | 1,550 | $68K | 12.2% | 4.0% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,842 | Martin Township IL | 1,188 | $81K | 12.4% | 5.4% | 10% | C+ |
| 2,843 | Otisfield ME | 1,893 | $84K | 10.3% | 2.6% | 2% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | 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 Sharon, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
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 Sharon: questions
What is the median household income in Sharon?
$67,500 (±$7,145) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sharon?
12.2%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sharon?
28 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sharon work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Delavan (12%, 10 mi), Darien (8%, 9 mi), Elkhorn (6%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Sharon walkable?
Sharon is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.3 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sharon without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sharon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sharon
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.