Rest Haven Motel · Photo: Teemu08 at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Spring Green draws 1,463 commuters a day, with 2.0 jobs for every working resident
Spring Green has 1,610 jobs, and 801 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for Spring Green are B for jobs and income and A for walkability. About one in five work in Spring Green; the top destination outside it is Madison (15%, 33 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Spring Green at work: what stands out
Spring Green is where the jobs are
Spring Green has 1,610 jobs, 2.0 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 2,400 people are in town, 52% more than the 1,600 who live here. Day and night ↓
Spring Green’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Spring Green is Madison, 33 miles away as the crow flies. 15% of working residents (120) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Jobs in Spring Green have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Spring Green went from 793 in 2013 to 1,610 in 2023, +103%. The jobs ↓
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; with 801 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
How Spring Green earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Spring Green is better than 60% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Spring Green’s grade up (6.8%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 36% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (3.1%) is left out: Spring Green’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, Spring Green could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
Spring Green on a workday afternoon
On a workday 654 residents head out to work and 147 work right here.
About 2,400 people are in Spring Green on a workday afternoon, 52% more 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.
Half of Spring Green commutes less than 25 miles
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.
Goods jobs make up 59% of work in Spring Green
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Spring Green, 2013 → 2023: 793 → 1,610. 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 Spring Green’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Spring Green’s workers come from
Where Spring Green clocks in
15% of workers
5% 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.
From Spring Green, about 20 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Spring Green workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 628 commuters (the 17% 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 Spring Green, walking beats the bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Spring Green is more walkable than 88% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Spring Green near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 757 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). 8.1% of Spring Green households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Spring Green’s commuters take a bus or train.
Spring Green next to U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100: 1,554th 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,552 | Milford NJ | 1,224 | $72K | 8.8% | 5.8% | 1% | B |
| 1,553 | Evans City PA | 1,670 | $74K | 4.1% | 7.2% | 2% | B |
| 1,554 | Spring Green WI | 1,567 | $87K | 6.8% | 3.1% | 18% | B |
| 1,555 | Independence Township IL | 1,135 | $79K | 1.8% | 6.2% | 1% | B |
| 1,556 | Georgetown ME | 1,101 | $84K | 6.3% | 3.5% | 4% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Spring Green, 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 Spring Green: questions
What is the median household income in Spring Green?
$87,344 (±$13,292) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Spring Green?
6.8%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Spring Green?
20 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Spring Green work?
18% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Madison (15%, 33 mi), Spring Green (5%, 2 mi), Dodgeville (5%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Spring Green walkable?
Spring Green is more walkable than 88% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.6 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Spring Green without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Spring Green, from the people who make the trip.
More of Spring Green
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.