Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 3.0Trempealeau has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
The two grades for Trempealeau are B+ for jobs and income and C− for walkability. There are 232 jobs in Trempealeau; 966 of its residents have a job. Home is the office for 6% of workers, against 13% across Wisconsin.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Trempealeau apart on work
Trempealeau is a place people come home to
There are 232 jobs based in Trempealeau, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Trempealeau has about 1,200 people in it, 39% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Trempealeau workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 29 minutes each way, against 22 across Wisconsin. Over a year that’s about 222 hours of commuting, 54 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 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 966 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Trempealeau’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Trempealeau is better than 68% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Trempealeau’s grade up (2.1%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 40% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Trempealeau could be anywhere from B− to A−.
The daily flow of workers through Trempealeau
On a workday 937 residents head out to work, 29 work right here, and 203 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Trempealeau on a workday afternoon, 39% 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.
How long Trempealeau spends getting to work: about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Trempealeau workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 968 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.
20% of working residents work in La Crosse
Where Trempealeau clocks in
20% of workers
11% 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 Trempealeau: what the 232 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Trempealeau, 2013 → 2023: 175 → 232. 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 Trempealeau’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Trempealeau’s workers travel
About 20% 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.
Getting around Trempealeau: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Trempealeau is more walkable than 21% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 1,024 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). 12.6% of Trempealeau households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Trempealeau’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Trempealeau ranks: 1,327th of 5,921 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 37 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 45 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 46 | North Prairie WI | 2,193 | $153K | 2.8% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,325 | Campbellsport WI | 2,034 | $80K | 11.3% | 1.3% | 9% | B+ |
| 1,326 | Lewiston UT | 1,940 | $99K | 3.3% | 3.6% | 5% | B+ |
| 1,327 | Trempealeau WI | 1,889 | $79K | 6.7% | 2.1% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,328 | Liberty Township IN | 1,734 | $81K | 7.1% | 4.0% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,329 | Duxbury VT | 1,444 | $105K | 2.7% | 4.7% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,921 | 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 Trempealeau, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Next door to Trempealeau
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Trempealeau workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trempealeau | – | B+ | C− | 29 min | $79,254 |
| Caledonia | under 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Caledonia: the same community as the town of that name, graded once. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Trempealeau’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 Trempealeau: questions
What is the median household income in Trempealeau?
$79,254 (±$4,164) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Trempealeau?
6.7%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Trempealeau?
29 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Trempealeau work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are La Crosse (20%, 16 mi), Winona (11%, 12 mi), Onalaska (6%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Trempealeau walkable?
Trempealeau is more walkable than 21% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Trempealeau without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 13% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Trempealeau, from the people who make the trip.
More of Trempealeau
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.