There are 1.9 jobs in Thorp for every working resident, and 1,145 people commute in
Measured by household income, Thorp is behind 83% of U.S. towns. Thorp has 1,295 jobs, and 686 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for Thorp are C− for jobs and income and B+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Thorp: the figures worth knowing
Thorp is where the jobs are
Thorp has 1,295 jobs, 1.9 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Thorp makes and builds things
50% of the jobs based in Thorp are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Thorp residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 33%. The jobs ↓
Thorp has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Thorp went from 952 in 2013 to 1,295 in 2023, +36%. 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 686 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
The four measures behind Thorp’s grade
On income, poverty and job access, Thorp is better than 23% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Thorp’s grade up (9.8%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($53,424, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (3.5%) is left out: Thorp’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Thorp could be anywhere from C− to C.
Who leaves Thorp for work, and who comes in
On a workday 536 residents head out to work and 150 work right here.
About 2,400 people are in Thorp on a workday afternoon, 34% more than live here.
1.9 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
Thorp makes things: 50% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Thorp, 2013 → 2023: 952 → 1,295. 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 Thorp’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who travels to work in Thorp, and from where
Where Thorp clocks in
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.
Time on the road from Thorp: about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Thorp workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 592 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.
The commute from Thorp, by distance
About 26% 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.
Driving is how Thorp gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Thorp is more walkable than 69% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.3% 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 626 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). 6.1% of Thorp households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Thorp’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Thorp ranks: 4,130th of 6,085 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 39 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 44 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,128 | Jarales NM | 2,144 | $56K | 9.5% | 0.0% | 1% | C− |
| 4,129 | Abram TX | 1,741 | $59K | 34.3% | 6.3% | <1% | C− |
| 4,130 | Thorp WI | 1,781 | $53K | 9.8% | 3.5% | 22% | C− |
| 4,131 | Marrowbone Township IL | 1,562 | $48K | 9.3% | 2.4% | 5% | C− |
| 4,132 | Long Neck DE | 2,161 | $57K | 10.2% | 1.9% | 7% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | 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 Thorp, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Thorp and its neighbors
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Thorp’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 Thorp: questions
What is the median household income in Thorp?
$53,424 (±$4,303) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Thorp?
9.8%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Thorp?
22 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Thorp work?
22% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Eau Claire (5%, 35 mi), Reseburg (5%, 5 mi), Chippewa Falls (4%, 29 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Thorp walkable?
Thorp is more walkable than 69% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 8.8 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Thorp without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Thorp, from the people who make the trip.
More of Thorp
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.