Photo: The original uploader was Sulfur at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 3.0St. Francis has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 5.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 12.9 in Milwaukee. St. Francis has 2,144 jobs for 4,704 working residents. The two grades for St. Francis are B− for jobs and income and A for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in St. Francis
A lot of St. Francis works one town over
41% of working residents work in a town that borders St. Francis: Milwaukee (38%) and Cudahy (3%). Next door ↓
A lot of St. Francis works from home
21% of St. Francis workers work from home, against 13% across Wisconsin. Time on the road ↓
Most St. Francis residents work close to home
60% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
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.
Where St. Francis’ Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, St. Francis is better than 53% of U.S. towns, #278 of 362 in Wisconsin. Job access by car holds St. Francis’ grade up (ahead of 93% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (17.0%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, St. Francis could be anywhere from C to B+.
How long St. Francis spends getting to work: about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of St. Francis workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,449 commuters (the 21% 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 St. Francis
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 commutes out of St. Francis, and who commutes in
On a workday 4,531 residents head out to work, 173 work right here, and 1,971 people come in from elsewhere.
About 6,400 people are in St. Francis on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
38% of working residents work in Milwaukee
Where St. Francis clocks in
38% of workers
6% of workers
4% 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.
What St. Francis’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in St. Francis, 2013 → 2023: 2,210 → 2,144. 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 St. Francis’s own residents hold wherever they work.
St. Francis is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, St. Francis is more walkable than 90% of U.S. towns, #19 of 362 in Wisconsin. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 4.5% 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 4,352 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 31% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 5.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 85% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 15.8% of St. Francis households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 4% of St. Francis’ commuters take a bus or train.
St. Francis is 1,597th of 2,862 U.S. towns of 6,300 to 12,100 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Pimmit Hills VA | 6,589 | $173K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Braddock VA | 6,536 | $212K | 0.9% | 1.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Fox Point WI | 6,583 | $141K | 2.5% | 0.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Elm Grove WI | 6,354 | $158K | 4.4% | 0.7% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 40 | Waukesha WI | 8,507 | $131K | 3.0% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,595 | Junction City OR | 7,224 | $86K | 9.5% | 5.3% | 12% | B− |
| 1,596 | Absecon NJ | 9,209 | $74K | 7.9% | 5.6% | 5% | B− |
| 1,597 | St. Francis WI | 8,955 | $57K | 17.0% | 2.9% | 4% | B− |
| 1,598 | Harrison Township OH | 10,681 | $64K | 9.2% | 4.6% | 7% | B− |
| 1,599 | Freeport FL | 7,543 | $92K | 7.4% | 3.0% | 7% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,862 | 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 St. Francis, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
41% of St. Francis works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Milwaukee (38%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | St. Francis workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Francis | – | B− | A | 22 min | $57,368 |
| Milwaukee | 38% | C | A+ | 22 min | $54,234 |
| Cudahy | 3% | B+ | A | 23 min | $66,719 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of St. Francis’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 St. Francis: questions
What is the median household income in St. Francis?
$57,368 (±$6,066) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in St. Francis?
17.0%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from St. Francis?
22 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 21% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in St. Francis work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Milwaukee (38%, 8 mi), Wauwatosa (6%, 10 mi), Oak Creek (4%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is St. Francis walkable?
St. Francis is more walkable than 90% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 13.3 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around St. Francis without a car?
4% of commuters take transit and 16% of households have no car. 31% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from St. Francis, from the people who make the trip.
More of St. Francis
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.