Strongs Prairie has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
There are 83 jobs in Strongs Prairie, against 409 working residents. Strongs Prairie grades C− for jobs and income and D for walkability. Only 3% work in Strongs Prairie; the top destination outside it is Friendship (12%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Strongs Prairie
Strongs Prairie is a place people come home to
There are 83 jobs based in Strongs Prairie, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Strongs Prairie has about 900 people in it, 27% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
31% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Strongs Prairie workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 27 minutes each way, against 22 across Wisconsin. Over a year that’s about 207 hours of commuting, 38 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 409 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Strongs Prairie
On income, poverty and job access, Strongs Prairie is better than 20% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Strongs Prairie’s grade up (10.6%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 6% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (4.7%) is left out: Strongs Prairie’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, Strongs Prairie could be anywhere from D to B−.
Strongs Prairie by day and by night
On a workday 395 residents head out to work, 14 work right here, and 69 people come in from elsewhere.
About 900 people are in Strongs Prairie on a workday afternoon, 27% 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.
The commute from Strongs Prairie, by distance
About 31% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Each way, about 27 minutes from Strongs Prairie
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Strongs Prairie workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 404 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.
Out of Strongs Prairie to work: where people go
Where Strongs Prairie clocks in
9% 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.
Jobs in Strongs Prairie: what the 83 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Strongs Prairie, 2014 → 2024: 78 → 83. 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 Strongs Prairie’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In Strongs Prairie, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Strongs Prairie is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 0.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 4.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 457 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). 4.2% of Strongs Prairie households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Strongs Prairie’s commuters take a bus or train.
Strongs Prairie places 3,327th of 4,866 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 2% | 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% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,325 | Etna ME | 1,245 | $72K | 15.5% | 5.7% | 5% | C− |
| 3,326 | Carrollton NY | 1,174 | $61K | 11.6% | 6.4% | 1% | C− |
| 3,327 | Strongs Prairie WI | 1,224 | $66K | 10.6% | 4.7% | 3% | C− |
| 3,328 | Grandview IL | 1,389 | $49K | 26.5% | 9.9% | 2% | C− |
| 3,329 | Big Timber MT | 1,686 | $67K | 10.4% | 3.7% | 40% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Strongs Prairie, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Strongs Prairie and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Preston (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Strongs Prairie workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strongs Prairie | – | C− | D | 27 min | $65,500 |
| Necedah | under 2% | C− | C− | 29 min | $57,778 |
| Preston | 2% | D− | D | 25 min | $49,219 |
| Quincy | under 2% | D | C+ | 27 min | $42,448 |
| Germantown | under 2% | C+ | C− | 19 min | $73,571 |
| Dellwood | under 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Monroe | under 2% | — | — | 47 min | — |
| Adams | under 2% | C | C+ | 26 min | $68,571 |
Same-state neighbors only. Dellwood: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Monroe: the same community as the city of that name, graded once. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Strongs Prairie’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 Strongs Prairie: questions
What is the median household income in Strongs Prairie?
$65,500 (±$13,384) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Strongs Prairie?
10.6%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Strongs Prairie?
27 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Strongs Prairie work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Friendship (12%, 6 mi), Adams (9%, 7 mi), Wisconsin Rapids (4%, 26 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Strongs Prairie walkable?
Strongs Prairie is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.0 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Strongs Prairie without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Strongs Prairie, from the people who make the trip.
More of Strongs Prairie
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.