Photo: BaronLarf · CC BY 3.0Work, pay and getting to work in Wild Rose
About one in ten stay in Wild Rose for work; outside it, Stevens Point is the main destination (7%, 28 miles). Commuters spend 28 minutes getting to work on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. Employers in Wild Rose report 388 jobs for 354 working residents.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Wild Rose and work: the main findings
About 28 minutes each way for Wild Rose’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wild Rose workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 332 commuters (the 13% 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.
Wild Rose by day and by night
On a workday 322 residents head out to work, 32 work right here, and 356 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 (1.10 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 people from Wild Rose work
Where Wild Rose clocks in
5% 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.
Jobs in Wild Rose: what the 388 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wild Rose, 2013 → 2023: 415 → 388. 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 Wild Rose’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Wild Rose, by distance
About 27% 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.
How Wild Rose compares with the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Wild Rose workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wild Rose | – | — | — | 28 min | $48,750 |
| Rose | under 3% | — | — | 27 min | — |
| Springwater | under 3% | C | D− | 31 min | $71,193 |
Same-state neighbors only. Rose: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Wild Rose’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 Wild Rose: questions
What is the median household income in Wild Rose?
$48,750 (±$7,114) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wild Rose?
14.3%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wild Rose?
28 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wild Rose work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Stevens Point (7%, 28 mi), Plainfield (5%, 13 mi), Wautoma (5%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Wild Rose 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 Wild Rose, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wild Rose
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.