Tilden has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Jobs and income earn Tilden A−; getting around on foot earns it C. 180 jobs are based in Tilden for 658 working residents. Measured by household income, Tilden is ahead of 82% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Tilden and work: the main findings
The four measures behind Tilden’s grade
On income, poverty and job access, Tilden is better than 76% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Tilden’s grade up ($106,985, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 42% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (2.8%) is left out: Tilden’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, Tilden could be anywhere from B to A.
Who works in Tilden, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 653 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 175 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Tilden on a workday afternoon, 31% 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.
26% of working residents work in Eau Claire
Where Tilden clocks in
14% 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.
A place that makes things: 42% of Tilden’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tilden, 2013 → 2023: 263 → 180. 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 Tilden’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Tilden, about 19 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tilden workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 602 commuters (the 13% 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.
How many miles Tilden commutes
About 19% 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.
For most of Tilden, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Tilden is more walkable than 27% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 5.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 693 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). 0.6% of Tilden households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Tilden’s commuters take a bus or train.
Tilden next to U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100: 793rd 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 791 | Santiago Township MN | 1,929 | $114K | 4.5% | 2.9% | 1% | A− |
| 792 | Minden Township MN | 1,543 | $76K | 3.2% | 1.7% | 3% | A− |
| 793 | Tilden WI | 1,537 | $107K | 5.3% | 2.8% | 1% | A− |
| 794 | Little River WI | 1,126 | $92K | 1.8% | 0.8% | 1% | A− |
| 795 | Tres Arroyos NM | 1,926 | $88K | 2.2% | 5.1% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Tilden, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Work next door: 16% of Tilden’s workers
The biggest share goes to Chippewa Falls (14%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Tilden workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tilden | – | A− | C | 19 min | $106,985 |
| Chippewa Falls | 14% | C+ | B+ | 19 min | $57,873 |
| Eagle Point | 1% | A | C− | 22 min | $110,654 |
| Wheaton | under 2% | A− | B− | 19 min | $103,053 |
| Woodmohr | 1% | B+ | D | 27 min | $87,428 |
| Howard | under 2% | — | — | 20 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Howard: the same community as the village of that name, graded once. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Tilden’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 Tilden: questions
What is the median household income in Tilden?
$106,985 (±$15,609) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tilden?
5.3%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tilden?
19 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tilden work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Eau Claire (26%, 12 mi), Chippewa Falls (14%, 6 mi), Bloomer (10%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Tilden walkable?
Tilden is more walkable than 27% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Tilden without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Tilden, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tilden
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.