Most of Winter commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
Only 7% work in Winter; the top destination outside it is Winter (13%, 8 miles). There are 81 jobs in Winter for 319 working residents. The two grades for Winter are C− for jobs and income and C− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Winter: the gist
A big share show a job far from home
41% 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 ↓
Winter is a place people come home to
There are 81 jobs based in Winter, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
Winter workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 32 minutes each way, against 22 across Wisconsin. Over a year that’s about 245 hours of commuting, 77 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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 319 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Winter gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Winter is better than 22% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Winter’s grade up ($72,250, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (4.5%) is left out: Winter’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, Winter could be anywhere from D to C+.
How far Winter goes to work
About 41% 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 a workday changes Winter
On a workday 297 residents head out to work, 22 work right here, and 59 people come in from elsewhere.
About 820 people are in Winter on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
Winter’s commute takes about 32 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Winter workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 260 commuters (the 11% 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.
Where Winter’s working residents head each day
Where Winter clocks in
7% 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.
What Winter’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Winter, 2013 → 2023: 71 → 81. 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 Winter’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Few in Winter walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Winter is more walkable than 20% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 4.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 293 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). 0.4% of Winter households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Winter’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Winter is 2,042nd among 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | 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+ |
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| 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,040 | Trumbull Township OH | 1,363 | $56K | 13.4% | 0.0% | 6% | C− |
| 2,041 | Rockland Township PA | 1,215 | $53K | 7.1% | 2.4% | 1% | C− |
| 2,042 | Winter WI | 1,053 | $72K | 10.8% | 4.5% | 7% | C− |
| 2,043 | Lenroot WI | 1,395 | $64K | 9.5% | 4.8% | 4% | C− |
| 2,044 | Byron WI | 1,245 | $77K | 16.5% | 10.7% | 4% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Winter, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Next door to Winter
The biggest share goes to Draper (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Winter workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter | – | C− | C− | 32 min | $72,250 |
| Draper | 3% | — | — | 45 min | — |
| Ojibwa | under 2% | — | — | 27 min | — |
| Flambeau | under 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Big Falls | under 2% | — | — | 27 min | — |
| Meadowbrook | under 2% | — | — | 43 min | — |
| South Fork | under 2% | — | — | 32 min | — |
| Radisson | under 2% | — | — | 34 min | — |
| Hunter | under 2% | — | — | 38 min | — |
| Round Lake | under 2% | C | B− | 25 min | $62,011 |
| Cedar Rapids | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Draper, Ojibwa, Flambeau, Big Falls, Meadowbrook, South Fork, Radisson, Hunter and Cedar Rapids: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Winter’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 Winter: questions
What is the median household income in Winter?
$72,250 (±$13,076) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Winter?
10.8%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Winter?
32 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Winter work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Winter (13%, 8 mi), Hayward (7%, 34 mi), Ladysmith (5%, 23 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Winter walkable?
Winter is more walkable than 20% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.6 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Winter without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and <1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Winter, from the people who make the trip.
More of Winter
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.