Work & commute · Delavan Lake

Work & commute in Delavan Lake, WI

Most working residents leave Delavan Lake for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Delavan (16%), Elkhorn (6%) and Madison (5%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

14 of 1,319 working residents

Typical commute

19 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

28 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 1,305 Delavan Lake residents head out of town to work, 14 work right here, and 202 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Delavan Lake.

1,305live here, work elsewhere

14live and work here

202work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Delavan Lake goes to work

Delavan1.7 mi away

16%217

Elkhorn6.1 mi away

6%73

Madison52.8 mi away

5%72

Lake Geneva9.9 mi away

5%63

Milwaukee45.7 mi away

4%47

Janesville20.7 mi away

3%41

Walworth5.5 mi away

3%39

Beloit21.1 mi away

3%34

Waukesha33.6 mi away

2%32

Burlington18.3 mi away

2%28

Everywhere elseother towns and states

51%673

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

How far

How far Delavan Lake commutes

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

37%

22%

25%

16%

37%Under 10 mi

22%10–24 mi

25%25–50 mi

16%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Delavan Lake is a commuter town

0.16jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Delavan Lake are

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

Jobs based in Delavan Lake

216 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)25%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less26%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month47%

Jobs Delavan Lake residents hold

1,319 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)27%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)52%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month62%

+76%

Jobs based in Delavan Lake, 2013 → 2023: 123 → 216. 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.