Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 3.0Jobs, income and commuting in Wausaukee, WI
2% of workers work from home, against 13% across Wisconsin. About one in seven work in Wausaukee; the top destination outside it is Marinette (9%, 26 miles). Working residents average 17 minutes each way, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Wausaukee: the figures worth knowing
A big share show a job far from home
42% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Wausaukee’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Wausaukee is Marinette, 26 miles away as the crow flies. 9% of working residents (24) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Wausaukee makes and builds things
46% of the jobs based in Wausaukee are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Wausaukee residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 39%. The jobs ↓
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 256 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The distance from Wausaukee to work
About 42% 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.
Making and building: 46% of jobs based in Wausaukee
383 jobs are based in Wausaukee.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wausaukee, 2013 → 2023: 585 → 383. 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 Wausaukee’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who commutes out of Wausaukee, and who commutes in
On a workday 221 residents head out to work, 35 work right here, and 348 people come in from elsewhere.
About 720 people are in Wausaukee on a workday afternoon, 21% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.50 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where Wausaukee’s working residents head each day
Where Wausaukee clocks in
9% of workers
5% 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.
The trip to work from Wausaukee: about 17 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wausaukee workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 255 commuters (the 2% 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.
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 Wausaukee: questions
What is the median household income in Wausaukee?
$48,897 (±$5,360) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wausaukee?
13.9%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wausaukee?
17 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wausaukee work?
14% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Marinette (9%, 26 mi), Crivitz (7%, 10 mi), Wausaukee (5%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Wausaukee 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 Wausaukee, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wausaukee
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.