Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 3.0Jobs and the daily commute in Sheboygan Falls
For jobs and income Sheboygan Falls is better than 60% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 68% of U.S. towns (B+). About one in seven stay in Sheboygan Falls for work; outside it, Sheboygan is the main destination (26%, 5 miles). A typical one-way commute lasts 14 minutes; Wisconsin averages 22, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Sheboygan Falls in brief
Sheboygan Falls trades workers with the towns around it
Sheboygan Falls has about as many jobs (3,477) as working residents (3,944), but they are mostly different people: 3,463 residents leave for work each day while 2,996 people come in. Only 14% of the jobs in Sheboygan Falls are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Sheboygan Falls makes and builds things
56% of the jobs based in Sheboygan Falls are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Sheboygan Falls residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 41%. The jobs ↓
Sheboygan Falls and Sheboygan trade workers both ways
Sheboygan is the top workplace for Sheboygan Falls residents (26%) and also where the most people who work in Sheboygan Falls come from (31% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Most Sheboygan Falls residents work close to home
69% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. How far ↓
Commutes from Sheboygan Falls are quick
The average trip to work takes 14 minutes, against 22 across Wisconsin. That’s about 61 hours a year less on the road than the typical Wisconsin 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.
The figures behind Sheboygan Falls’ Jobs & income grade
Job access by car holds Sheboygan Falls’ grade up (ahead of 66% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($71,477, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Sheboygan Falls could be anywhere from C to A.
Who commutes out of Sheboygan Falls, and who commutes in
On a workday 3,463 residents head out to work, 481 work right here, and 2,996 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 (0.88 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.
Goods, not services: 56% of the jobs in Sheboygan Falls
3,477 jobs are based in Sheboygan Falls.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sheboygan Falls, 2013 → 2023: 3,571 → 3,477. 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 Sheboygan Falls’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting out of Sheboygan Falls: the destinations
Where Sheboygan Falls clocks in
26% of workers
8% of workers
7% 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.
The commute from Sheboygan Falls, by distance
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.
Commuting from Sheboygan Falls: about 14 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sheboygan Falls workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,009 commuters (the 13% 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.
In Sheboygan Falls, the car does most of the work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 7.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 4,626 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). 6.8% of Sheboygan Falls households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Sheboygan Falls’ commuters take a bus or train.
Sheboygan Falls places 1,425th of 2,893 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 6,100 to 11,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 3 | Pimmit Hills VA | 6,589 | $173K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 3% | A+ |
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| 14 | Fox Point WI | 6,583 | $141K | 2.5% | 0.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Elm Grove WI | 6,354 | $158K | 4.4% | 0.7% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 41 | Waukesha WI | 8,507 | $131K | 3.0% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,423 | Fuller Heights FL | 10,083 | $82K | 7.7% | 4.9% | 1% | B |
| 1,424 | Pleasant Grove AL | 9,346 | $70K | 19.7% | 1.7% | 2% | B |
| 1,425 | Sheboygan Falls WI | 8,687 | $71K | 7.6% | 4.0% | 12% | B |
| 1,426 | Reedsburg WI | 10,641 | $75K | 8.3% | 2.6% | 35% | B |
| 1,427 | Walnut Township OH | 7,051 | $75K | 6.4% | 5.0% | 6% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 2,893 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Sheboygan Falls, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
The towns next door employ 10% of Sheboygan Falls
The biggest share goes to Kohler (8%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Sheboygan Falls workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sheboygan Falls | – | B | B+ | 14 min | $71,477 |
| Lima | under 2% | A | C | 17 min | $106,065 |
| Kohler | 8% | A | C | 15 min | $135,833 |
| Wilson | 2% | A | D | 17 min | $104,632 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Sheboygan Falls’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 Sheboygan Falls: questions
What is the median household income in Sheboygan Falls?
$71,477 (±$9,656) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sheboygan Falls?
7.6%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sheboygan Falls?
14 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sheboygan Falls work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sheboygan (26%, 5 mi), Kohler (8%, 2 mi), Plymouth (7%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Sheboygan Falls walkable?
Sheboygan Falls is more walkable than 68% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sheboygan Falls without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sheboygan Falls, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sheboygan Falls
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.