St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church · Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 3.0Sherman has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Household incomes here are higher than in 82% of U.S. towns. Employers in Sherman report 156 jobs; 559 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Sherman is better than 91% of U.S. towns (A); for walkability it is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns (C).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Sherman, in brief
Where Sherman’s Jobs & income grade comes from
The poverty rate is its strongest input (2.0%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 59% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (1.6%) is left out: Sherman’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A firm grade. At either end of the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Sherman stays A.
Who works in Sherman, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 549 residents head out to work, 10 work right here, and 146 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Sherman on a workday afternoon, 28% 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 2024, primary jobs.
13% of working residents work in Random Lake
Where Sherman clocks in
13% 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.
Sherman makes things: 63% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sherman, 2014 → 2024: 200 → 156. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Sherman’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 22 minutes to work from Sherman
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sherman workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 704 commuters (the 12% 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 Sherman
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Most trips from Sherman start in a car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 4.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 798 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). 2.6% of Sherman households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Sherman’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900, Sherman ranks 257th of 5,877 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 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 50 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 255 | Lone Jack MO | 1,896 | $121K | 5.5% | 5.1% | 6% | A |
| 256 | Bennington Township OH | 1,763 | $93K | 1.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A |
| 257 | Sherman WI | 1,444 | $107K | 2.0% | 1.6% | 2% | A |
| 258 | Haskins OH | 1,263 | $109K | 4.4% | 4.3% | <1% | A |
| 259 | Poetry TX | 1,542 | $95K | 2.7% | 5.8% | 0% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Sherman, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
16% of Sherman works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Random Lake (13%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Sherman workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sherman | – | A | C | 22 min | $107,202 |
| Random Lake | 13% | A− | B+ | 23 min | $89,601 |
| Adell | 3% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Scott | under 3% | B+ | C+ | 25 min | $91,683 |
| Fredonia | under 3% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Holland | under 3% | A− | C+ | 25 min | $92,250 |
| Lyndon | under 3% | A− | C | 24 min | $93,000 |
| Batavia | under 3% | — | — | 18 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Adell: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Fredonia: the same community as the village of that name, graded once. Batavia: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Sherman’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 2024, 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 Sherman: questions
What is the median household income in Sherman?
$107,202 (±$11,679) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sherman?
2.0%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sherman?
22 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sherman work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Random Lake (13%, 3 mi), Port Washington (8%, 15 mi), Sheboygan (6%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Sherman walkable?
Sherman is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sherman without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sherman, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sherman
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.