Work & commute · Adams

Work & commute in Adams, WI

Most working residents leave Adams for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Black River Falls (21%), Brockway (9%) and Eau Claire (4%). Half commute less than 24 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

15 of 646 working residents

Typical commute

24 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 631 Adams residents head out of town to work, 15 work right here, and 117 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Adams.

631live here, work elsewhere

15live and work here

117work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Adams goes to work

Black River Falls3.7 mi away

21%138

Brockway5.4 mi away

9%57

Eau Claire45.8 mi away

4%24

La Crosse41.4 mi away

3%22

Alma6.1 mi away

2%16

Whitehall25.1 mi away

2%15

Adams (in town)right here

2%15

Sparta28.7 mi away

2%13

Alma Center7.1 mi away

2%11

Tomah30.1 mi away

2%11

Everywhere elseother towns and states

50%324

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Adams commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

38%

13%

24%

26%

38%Under 10 mi

13%10–24 mi

24%25–50 mi

26%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Adams is a commuter town

0.20jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.20 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Adams are

132 jobs are based in Adams. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Adams’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Adams

132 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)52%

$1,250 a month or less40%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month33%

Jobs Adams residents hold

646 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)26%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)51%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month54%

−6%

Jobs based in Adams, 2013 → 2023: 140 → 132. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.