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Work & commute in Halsey, WI

Most working residents leave Halsey for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Wausau (13%), Athens (12%) and Medford (5%). Half commute less than 18 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
1%
3 of 285 working residents
Typical commute
18 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
29 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
37%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 282 Halsey residents head out of town to work, 3 work right here, and 61 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Halsey.

282live here, work elsewhere
3live and work here
61work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Halsey goes to work

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1
Wausau20.4 mi away
13%37
2
Athens4.1 mi away
12%34
3
Medford15.9 mi away
5%15
4
Marshfield29.8 mi away
5%15
5
Johnson8.4 mi away
5%15
6
Abbotsford17.1 mi away
5%14
7
Colby18.4 mi away
4%12
8
Marathon City13.2 mi away
4%10
9
Merrill17.3 mi away
3%9
10
Madison141 mi away
2%6
Everywhere elseother towns and states
41%118

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

How far

How far Halsey commutes

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

21%Under 10 mi
44%10–24 mi
13%25–50 mi
22%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Halsey is a commuter town

0.22jobs per working resident
A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Halsey are

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

Jobs based in Halsey

64 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)56%
Trade, transport & utilities23%
Services (health, schools, offices…)20%
$1,250 a month or less17%
$1,251–$3,333 a month33%
Over $3,333 a month50%

Jobs Halsey residents hold

285 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)32%
Trade, transport & utilities22%
Services (health, schools, offices…)47%
$1,250 a month or less14%
$1,251–$3,333 a month25%
Over $3,333 a month61%
+94%

Jobs based in Halsey, 2013 → 2023: 33 → 64. 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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