Work & commute · Gays Mills

Work & commute in Gays Mills, WI

Most working residents leave Gays Mills for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Viroqua (8%), Clayton (5%) and Prairie du Chien (4%). Half commute less than 24 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

12 of 201 working residents

Typical commute

24 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

29 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 189 Gays Mills residents head out of town to work, 12 work right here, and 199 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Gays Mills.

189live here, work elsewhere

12live and work here

199work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Gays Mills goes to work

Viroqua16.1 mi away

8%16

Gays Mills (in town)right here

6%12

Clayton5.4 mi away

5%11

Prairie du Chien24.7 mi away

4%9

Boscobel14.5 mi away

4%8

Soldiers Grove5.6 mi away

3%7

Franklin10.7 mi away

3%6

Richland Center23.3 mi away

2%5

Marshfield98 mi away

2%5

Rochester, MN94.3 mi away

2%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

59%118

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

How far

How far Gays Mills commutes

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

19%

33%

13%

34%

19%Under 10 mi

33%10–24 mi

13%25–50 mi

34%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Gays Mills is balanced between jobs and homes

1.05jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.05 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Gays Mills are

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

Jobs based in Gays Mills

211 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)69%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)15%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month42%

Jobs Gays Mills residents hold

201 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)35%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)46%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month59%

+6%

Jobs based in Gays Mills, 2013 → 2023: 200 → 211. 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.