Work & commute · Hales Corners

Work & commute in Hales Corners, WI

Most working residents leave Hales Corners for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Milwaukee (25%), Wauwatosa (7%) and West Allis (5%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

148 of 3,686 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

11%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 3,538 Hales Corners residents head out of town to work, 148 work right here, and 2,979 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Hales Corners.

3,538live here, work elsewhere

148live and work here

2,979work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Hales Corners goes to work

Milwaukee9.4 mi away

25%913

Wauwatosa8.5 mi away

7%257

West Allis4.7 mi away

5%194

New Berlin4.6 mi away

5%172

Brookfield9.2 mi away

5%172

Waukesha10.9 mi away

4%151

Hales Corners (in town)right here

4%148

Franklin4.4 mi away

3%127

Greenfield2.7 mi away

3%120

Menomonee Falls15.5 mi away

3%100

Everywhere elseother towns and states

36%1,332

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

How far

How far Hales Corners commutes

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

59%

29%

59%Under 10 mi

29%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

9%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Hales Corners is balanced between jobs and homes

0.85jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.85 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Hales Corners are

3,127 jobs are based in Hales Corners. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Hales Corners’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Hales Corners

3,127 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)6%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)75%

$1,250 a month or less25%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month45%

Jobs Hales Corners residents hold

3,686 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month18%

Over $3,333 a month67%

+29%

Jobs based in Hales Corners, 2013 → 2023: 2,422 → 3,127. 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.