Green Bay and Western Railroad Depot · Photo: Jonathunder · CC BY-SA 4.0Whitehall draws 4,141 commuters a day, with 6.1 jobs for every working resident
There are 4,395 jobs in Whitehall, and 716 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for Whitehall are B− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. About one in three work in Whitehall; the top destination outside it is Arcadia (6%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Whitehall
Whitehall fills up on a workday
Whitehall has 4,395 jobs, 6.1 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 5,300 people are in town, 3 times the 1,600 who live here. Day and night ↓
Whitehall makes and builds things
70% of the jobs based in Whitehall are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Whitehall residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 38%. 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 716 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Whitehall
On income, poverty and job access, Whitehall is better than 46% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Whitehall’s grade up (6.3%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($61,875, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (1.1%) is left out: Whitehall’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, Whitehall could be anywhere from C to B.
The daily commute in and out of Whitehall
On a workday 462 residents head out to work and 254 work right here.
About 5,300 people are in Whitehall on a workday afternoon, 227% more 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.
Whitehall works in goods: 70% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Whitehall, 2013 → 2023: 4,648 → 4,395. 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 Whitehall’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting in to Whitehall: where workers come from
Where Whitehall clocks in
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.
About 22 minutes each way for Whitehall’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Whitehall workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 699 commuters (the 9% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Whitehall
About 23% 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.
Driving is how Whitehall gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Whitehall is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 5.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 764 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). 5.4% of Whitehall households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Whitehall’s commuters take a bus or train.
Whitehall is 2,529th of 6,161 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200 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 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 43 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 48 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,527 | Hebron MD | 1,119 | $98K | 23.8% | 3.0% | 1% | B− |
| 2,528 | Navassa NC | 1,889 | $62K | 9.2% | 2.1% | 2% | B− |
| 2,529 | Whitehall WI | 1,621 | $62K | 6.3% | 1.1% | 35% | B− |
| 2,530 | Marion Township IN | 1,108 | $83K | 10.4% | 6.8% | <1% | B− |
| 2,531 | Union Township IN | 1,841 | $83K | 15.0% | 2.2% | 2% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | 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 Whitehall, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
How Whitehall compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Independence (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Whitehall workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whitehall | – | B− | C+ | 22 min | $61,875 |
| Lincoln | under 2% | — | — | 20 min | — |
| Independence | 2% | C− | C | 22 min | $58,000 |
Same-state neighbors only. Lincoln: the same community as the town of that name, graded once. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Whitehall’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 Whitehall: questions
What is the median household income in Whitehall?
$61,875 (±$7,372) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Whitehall?
6.3%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Whitehall?
22 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Whitehall work?
35% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Arcadia (6%, 11 mi), Eau Claire (4%, 33 mi), La Crosse (4%, 37 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Whitehall walkable?
Whitehall is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.0 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Whitehall without a car?
0% 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 Whitehall, from the people who make the trip.
More of Whitehall
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.