Photo: User:Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Vandenbroek top those of 91% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 1.6% of residents, next to 10.6% for Wisconsin as a whole. For jobs and income Vandenbroek is among the top U.S. towns (A+); for walkability it is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns (C+). Hardly any work in Vandenbroek itself; outside it, Appleton draws the most (21%, 5 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Vandenbroek: the figures worth knowing
A lot of Vandenbroek works one town over
40% of working residents work in a town that borders Vandenbroek: Appleton (21%), Kaukauna (8%) and Grand Chute (6%). Next door ↓
Vandenbroek makes and builds things
40% of the jobs based in Vandenbroek are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Vandenbroek residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 30%. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Vandenbroek are quick
The average trip to work takes 16 minutes, against 22 across Wisconsin. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical Wisconsin worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 840 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Vandenbroek’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Vandenbroek is among the top U.S. towns. The poverty rate is its strongest input; job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 81% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (5.0%) is left out: Vandenbroek’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A firm grade. At either end of the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Vandenbroek stays A+.
Goods, not services: 40% of the jobs in Vandenbroek
501 jobs are based in Vandenbroek.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Vandenbroek, 2014 → 2024: 446 → 501. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Vandenbroek’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 16 minutes each way, quicker than most of Wisconsin
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Vandenbroek workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 795 commuters (the 10% 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 workday shuffle in and out of Vandenbroek
On a workday 836 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 497 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Vandenbroek on a workday afternoon, 20% fewer than live here.
0.60 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
The towns that employ Vandenbroek’s residents
Where Vandenbroek clocks in
21% of workers
8% of workers
6% 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.
How many miles Vandenbroek commutes
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
The commute in Vandenbroek is mostly behind the wheel
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.3% 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 881 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). 1.2% of Vandenbroek households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Vandenbroek’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300, Vandenbroek ranks 60th of 5,760 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 1% | A+ |
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| 22 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 2% | 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% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 58 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 2% | A+ |
| 59 | West Conshohocken PA | 1,498 | $139K | 5.0% | 1.6% | 4% | A+ |
| 60 | Vandenbroek WI | 1,701 | $129K | 1.6% | 5.0% | <1% | A+ |
| 61 | Five Points OH | 2,031 | $144K | 1.9% | 4.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 62 | Audubon Park KY | 1,457 | $101K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 Vandenbroek, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
40% of Vandenbroek works in a town next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Vandenbroek workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vandenbroek | – | A+ | C+ | 16 min | $128,594 |
| Kaukauna | 8% | A− | B | 21 min | $80,365 |
| Little Chute | 5% | A | B− | 19 min | $87,538 |
| Kaukauna | under 3% | A+ | C+ | 18 min | $121,875 |
| Freedom | under 3% | A+ | C+ | 22 min | $121,711 |
| Appleton | 21% | B+ | A− | 19 min | $80,483 |
| Grand Chute | 6% | A | B+ | 18 min | $78,105 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Appleton. Darker towns draw more of Vandenbroek’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 2024, 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 Vandenbroek: questions
What is the median household income in Vandenbroek?
$128,594 (±$12,292) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Vandenbroek?
1.6%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Vandenbroek?
16 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Vandenbroek work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Appleton (21%, 5 mi), Kaukauna (8%, 3 mi), Grand Chute (6%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Vandenbroek walkable?
Vandenbroek is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Vandenbroek without a car?
1% 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 Vandenbroek, from the people who make the trip.
More of Vandenbroek
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.