Photo: The original uploader was Royalbroil at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 2.5Where Stockbridge earns its living
Commuters spend 28 minutes getting to work on average, next to 22 for Wisconsin and 26 for the U.S. Only 4% work in Stockbridge itself; outside it, Chilton draws the most (13%, 8 miles). Stockbridge has 210 jobs, against 322 working residents.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Stockbridge, in brief
The daily trip from Stockbridge: about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Stockbridge workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 324 commuters (the 11% 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.
Stockbridge quiets down on a workday
On a workday 308 residents head out to work, 14 work right here, and 196 people come in from elsewhere.
About 540 people are in Stockbridge on a workday afternoon, 17% fewer than live here.
0.65 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where Stockbridge’s working residents head each day
Where Stockbridge clocks in
13% of workers
7% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 53% of the jobs in Stockbridge
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Stockbridge, 2013 → 2023: 112 → 210. 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 Stockbridge’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Stockbridge works
About 15% 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.
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 Stockbridge: questions
What is the median household income in Stockbridge?
$59,167 (±$41,805) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Stockbridge?
4.0%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Stockbridge?
28 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Stockbridge work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Chilton (13%, 8 mi), Appleton (7%, 15 mi), Fond du Lac (6%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Stockbridge without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Stockbridge, from the people who make the trip.
More of Stockbridge
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.