Work & commute · Blue Mounds

Work & commute in Blue Mounds, WI

Most working residents leave Blue Mounds for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Madison (39%), Mount Horeb (8%) and Verona (8%). Half commute less than 18 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

13 of 484 working residents

Typical commute

18 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

24 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

14%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 471 Blue Mounds residents head out of town to work, 13 work right here, and 288 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Blue Mounds.

471live here, work elsewhere

13live and work here

288work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Blue Mounds goes to work

Madison18.8 mi away

39%187

Mount Horeb2.6 mi away

8%37

Verona12.2 mi away

8%37

Fitchburg17.9 mi away

5%22

Middleton15.8 mi away

4%17

Blue Mounds (in town)right here

3%13

Blue Mounds2.8 mi away

2%11

Monona22.9 mi away

2%8

Cross Plains10.7 mi away

1%7

Springdale6.6 mi away

1%6

Everywhere elseother towns and states

29%139

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

How far

How far Blue Mounds commutes

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

18%

59%

15%

18%Under 10 mi

59%10–24 mi

8%25–50 mi

15%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Blue Mounds is a commuter town

0.62jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Blue Mounds are

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

Jobs based in Blue Mounds

301 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)33%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)48%

$1,250 a month or less26%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month54%

Jobs Blue Mounds residents hold

484 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month18%

Over $3,333 a month69%

+57%

Jobs based in Blue Mounds, 2013 → 2023: 192 → 301. 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.