Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 3.0Households in Weyauwega have lower incomes than those in 64% of U.S. towns
Only 7% work in Weyauwega; the top destination outside it is Waupaca (20%, 7 miles). Jobs and income earn Weyauwega C+; getting around on foot earns it B. Working from home is the commute for 6% of workers, against 13% across Wisconsin.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Weyauwega, in brief
Weyauwega makes and builds things
67% of the jobs based in Weyauwega are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Weyauwega residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 37%. The jobs ↓
Weyauwega and Waupaca trade workers both ways
Waupaca is the top workplace for Weyauwega residents (20%) and also where the most people who work in Weyauwega come from (11% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
The jobs in Weyauwega pay better than its residents’ jobs
72% of the jobs based in Weyauwega pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 57% of the jobs Weyauwega residents hold. 93% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Weyauwega. 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 944 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Weyauwega’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Weyauwega is better than 42% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Weyauwega’s grade.
Unemployment (0.2%) is left out: Weyauwega’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, Weyauwega could be anywhere from C to B−.
Goods, not services: 67% of the jobs in Weyauwega
912 jobs are based in Weyauwega.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Weyauwega, 2013 → 2023: 867 → 912. 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 Weyauwega’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Weyauwega’s working residents head each day
Where Weyauwega clocks in
20% of workers
5% of workers
3% 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 a workday changes Weyauwega
On a workday 881 residents head out to work, 63 work right here, and 849 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.97 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.
The trip to work from Weyauwega: about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Weyauwega workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 895 commuters (the 6% 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.
How many miles Weyauwega commutes
About 24% 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.
Most of Weyauwega commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Weyauwega is more walkable than 65% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 6.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 956 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). 4.8% of Weyauwega households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Weyauwega’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Weyauwega is 2,496th of 5,343 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,400
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 35 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 40 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 41 | North Prairie WI | 2,193 | $153K | 2.8% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,494 | Blooming Prairie MN | 1,935 | $64K | 7.5% | 2.4% | 17% | C+ |
| 2,495 | Monticello UT | 1,737 | $73K | 4.5% | 0.0% | 30% | C+ |
| 2,496 | Weyauwega WI | 1,788 | $67K | 10.6% | 0.2% | 7% | C+ |
| 2,497 | Tome NM | 1,723 | $85K | 12.2% | 13.9% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,498 | Fairfield Beach OH | 1,432 | $49K | 8.1% | 6.5% | 1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,343 | 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 Weyauwega, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
The towns around Weyauwega
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Weyauwega’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 Weyauwega: questions
What is the median household income in Weyauwega?
$66,625 (±$3,486) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Weyauwega?
10.6%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Weyauwega?
21 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Weyauwega work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Waupaca (20%, 7 mi), Appleton (5%, 27 mi), Grand Chute (3%, 24 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Weyauwega walkable?
Weyauwega is more walkable than 65% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Weyauwega without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Weyauwega, from the people who make the trip.
More of Weyauwega
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.