Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Van Dyne works elsewhere
Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers (Wisconsin 13%). Van Dyne has 30 jobs, and 142 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Van Dyne itself; outside it, Fond du Lac draws the most (25%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Van Dyne
On a workday 142 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 30 people come in from elsewhere.
About 640 people are in Van Dyne on a workday afternoon, 15% 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.
The places Van Dyne commutes to
Where Van Dyne clocks in
25% of workers
17% of workers
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.
Jobs in Van Dyne: what the 30 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Van Dyne, 2013 → 2023: 27 → 30. 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 Van Dyne’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 21 minutes in Van Dyne
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Van Dyne workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 361 commuters (the 0% 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.
Where in the region Van Dyne works
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.
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 Van Dyne: questions
What is the median household income in Van Dyne?
$130,206 (±$22,521) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Van Dyne?
0.0%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Van Dyne?
21 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Van Dyne work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fond du Lac (25%, 8 mi), Oshkosh (17%, 10 mi), Rosendale (4%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Van Dyne without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Van Dyne, from the people who make the trip.
More of Van Dyne
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.