Photo: Asher Heimermann · CC BY 3.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Two Rivers works elsewhere
Hardly any stay in Two Rivers for work; outside it, Manitowoc is the main destination (28%, 8 miles). 57 jobs are based in Two Rivers, against 791 working residents. Jobs and income earn Two Rivers B; getting around on foot earns it D.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Two Rivers stands out on work
Two Rivers is a place people come home to
There are 57 jobs based in Two Rivers, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Two Rivers has about 950 people in it, 43% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A lot of Two Rivers works one town over
33% of working residents work in a town that borders Two Rivers: Manitowoc (28%), Two Creeks (4%) and Mishicot (1%). Next door ↓
Short distances, slow trips
Half of Two Rivers’ working residents have a job less than 9 miles away, yet the average commute still takes 24 minutes, longer than the Wisconsin average of 22. 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 791 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Two Rivers’ grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Two Rivers is better than 62% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Two Rivers’ grade up (6.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 49% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (1.6%) is left out: Two Rivers’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, Two Rivers could be anywhere from B− to B+.
Two Rivers on a workday afternoon
On a workday 786 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 52 people come in from elsewhere.
About 950 people are in Two Rivers on a workday afternoon, 43% 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.
Two Rivers’ commute takes about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Two Rivers workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 760 commuters (the 7% 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 places Two Rivers commutes to
Where Two Rivers 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: 30% of Two Rivers’ jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Two Rivers, 2013 → 2023: 230 → 57. 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 Two Rivers’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Two Rivers
About 16% 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.
In Two Rivers, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Two Rivers is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Two Rivers near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 820 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). 1.5% of Two Rivers households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Two Rivers’ commuters take a bus or train.
Two Rivers is 1,534th of 5,760 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 38 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 43 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,532 | Chester MA | 1,222 | $89K | 1.8% | 1.5% | 3% | B |
| 1,533 | Woodland Township NJ | 1,581 | $139K | 20.3% | 3.5% | 1% | B |
| 1,534 | Two Rivers WI | 1,688 | $77K | 6.4% | 1.6% | 1% | B |
| 1,535 | Oologah OK | 1,358 | $80K | 9.4% | 7.6% | 5% | B |
| 1,536 | Elk Point SD | 2,080 | $90K | 8.5% | 3.0% | 22% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | 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 Two Rivers, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
The towns next door employ 33% of Two Rivers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Two Rivers workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Two Rivers | – | B | D | 24 min | $77,056 |
| Mishicot | 1% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Manitowoc | 28% | B− | B+ | 19 min | $63,757 |
| Two Creeks | 4% | — | — | 27 min | — |
| Kossuth | under 2% | A | D | 24 min | $97,036 |
| Manitowoc | under 2% | B | D | 20 min | $81,734 |
Same-state neighbors only. Mishicot: the same community as the village of that name, graded once. Two Creeks: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Manitowoc. Darker towns draw more of Two Rivers’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 Two Rivers: questions
What is the median household income in Two Rivers?
$77,056 (±$6,622) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Two Rivers?
6.4%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Two Rivers?
24 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Two Rivers work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Manitowoc (28%, 8 mi), Two Rivers (14%, 3 mi), Mishicot (4%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Two Rivers walkable?
Two Rivers is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.3 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Two Rivers 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 Two Rivers, from the people who make the trip.
More of Two Rivers
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.