Photo: Shullsbadger · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Shullsburg earn less than those in 67% of U.S. towns
For jobs and income Shullsburg is better than 28% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 69% of U.S. towns (B+). Below the poverty line: 11.7% of residents, next to 10.6% for Wisconsin as a whole. 5% of workers work from home, next to 13% for Wisconsin as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Shullsburg in brief
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Shullsburg
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Shullsburg’s grade.
Unemployment (4.6%) is left out: Shullsburg’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Shullsburg could be anywhere from D to B−.
Half of Shullsburg commutes less than 24 miles
About 24% 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.
Who works in Shullsburg, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 498 residents head out to work, 64 work right here, and 375 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Shullsburg on a workday afternoon, 10% fewer than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.78 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.
12% of working residents work in Dubuque
Where Shullsburg clocks in
12% 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 439 jobs based in Shullsburg
439 jobs are based in Shullsburg.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Shullsburg, 2013 → 2023: 354 → 439. 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 Shullsburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Shullsburg: about 25 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Shullsburg workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 520 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.
Most trips from Shullsburg start in a car
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 4.8% across Wisconsin.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 545 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). 7.4% of Shullsburg households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Shullsburg’s commuters take a bus or train.
Shullsburg is 2,881st of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 42 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,879 | Ridgely MD | 1,630 | $62K | 12.8% | 10.8% | 3% | C |
| 2,880 | Langley WA | 1,129 | $77K | 10.4% | 4.2% | 11% | C |
| 2,881 | Shullsburg WI | 1,240 | $64K | 11.7% | 4.6% | 11% | C |
| 2,882 | Fremont Township MI | 1,511 | $75K | 13.2% | 4.3% | 5% | C |
| 2,883 | Fulton NY | 1,205 | $76K | 10.0% | 0.8% | 3% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Shullsburg, 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 Shullsburg: questions
What is the median household income in Shullsburg?
$64,028 (±$11,075) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Shullsburg?
11.7%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Shullsburg?
25 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Shullsburg work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dubuque (12%, 25 mi), Platteville (7%, 16 mi), Benton (6%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Shullsburg walkable?
Shullsburg is more walkable than 69% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 8.3 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Shullsburg 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 Shullsburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Shullsburg
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.