Most of Waukechon commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
There are 258 jobs in Waukechon, against 470 working residents. The two grades for Waukechon are B+ for jobs and income and B for walkability. Household incomes here are higher than in 79% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Waukechon, in a few figures
Why Waukechon gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Waukechon is better than 72% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Waukechon’s grade up ($102,375, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 43% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (1.0%) is left out: Waukechon’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, Waukechon could be anywhere from B− to A.
Waukechon’s commute, mile by mile
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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Waukechon
On a workday 465 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 253 people come in from elsewhere.
About 820 people are in Waukechon on a workday afternoon, 21% 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.
9% of working residents work in Green Bay
Where Waukechon clocks in
9% of workers
8% 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.
Most jobs in Waukechon are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Waukechon, 2013 → 2023: 270 → 258. 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 Waukechon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Waukechon: about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Waukechon workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 481 commuters (the 14% 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.
In Waukechon, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Waukechon is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 5.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 560 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). 4.3% of Waukechon households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Waukechon’s commuters take a bus or train.
Waukechon next to U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400: 456th of 3,133 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 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 67 | Kaukauna WI | 1,295 | $122K | 2.0% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 454 | Hendricks Township IN | 1,195 | $95K | 7.8% | 1.3% | 2% | B+ |
| 455 | Sugar Creek Township IN | 1,059 | $70K | 5.5% | 6.2% | 1% | B+ |
| 456 | Waukechon WI | 1,034 | $102K | 6.5% | 1.0% | 1% | B+ |
| 457 | Grass Lake MI | 1,098 | $81K | 5.6% | 3.5% | 3% | B+ |
| 458 | Santa Fe Township IL | 1,215 | $89K | 2.9% | 0.4% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Waukechon, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
The towns around Waukechon
The biggest share goes to Shawano (8%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Waukechon workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waukechon | – | B+ | B | 23 min | $102,375 |
| Shawano | 8% | B− | A− | 16 min | $57,490 |
| Belle Plaine | under 3% | C+ | C | 24 min | $74,779 |
| Hartland | under 3% | — | — | 25 min | — |
| Navarino | under 3% | — | — | 31 min | — |
| Washington | under 3% | C+ | C− | 34 min | $62,096 |
Same-state neighbors only. Hartland: the same community as the village of that name, graded once. Navarino: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Waukechon’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 Waukechon: questions
What is the median household income in Waukechon?
$102,375 (±$12,624) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Waukechon?
6.5%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Waukechon?
23 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Waukechon work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Green Bay (9%, 30 mi), Shawano (8%, 5 mi), Bonduel (4%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Waukechon walkable?
Waukechon is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.8 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Waukechon without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Waukechon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Waukechon
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.