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Work & commute in Blue Mounds, WI

Most working residents leave Blue Mounds for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Madison (40%), Mount Horeb (7%) and Verona (7%). Half commute less than 20 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
2%
9 of 459 working residents
Typical commute
20 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
25 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
22%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 450 Blue Mounds residents head out of town to work, 9 work right here, and 306 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Blue Mounds.

450live here, work elsewhere
9live and work here
306work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Blue Mounds goes to work

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1
Madison20.6 mi away
40%185
2
Mount Horeb4.9 mi away
7%33
3
Verona14.6 mi away
7%31
4
Middleton17.3 mi away
7%31
5
Springdale9.3 mi away
3%13
6
Fitchburg20.4 mi away
2%11
7
Blue Mounds (in town)right here
2%9
8
Cross Plains11.3 mi away
2%9
9
Pewaukee80 mi away
2%7
10
Blue Mounds2.8 mi away
2%7
Everywhere elseother towns and states
27%123

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.

14%Under 10 mi
61%10–24 mi
11%25–50 mi
14%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Blue Mounds is a commuter town

0.69jobs per working resident
A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Blue Mounds are

315 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

315 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)80%
Trade, transport & utilities8%
Services (health, schools, offices…)12%
$1,250 a month or less11%
$1,251–$3,333 a month24%
Over $3,333 a month64%

Jobs Blue Mounds residents hold

459 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)21%
Trade, transport & utilities16%
Services (health, schools, offices…)63%
$1,250 a month or less14%
$1,251–$3,333 a month14%
Over $3,333 a month72%
+43%

Jobs based in Blue Mounds, 2013 → 2023: 220 → 315. 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.

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