Work & commute · Hartford

Work & commute in Hartford, WI

Most working residents leave Hartford for work: only 19% work in town. The top destinations are Milwaukee (10%), Menomonee Falls (5%) and West Bend (4%). Half commute less than 17 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

19%

1,572 of 8,143 working residents

Typical commute

17 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

15%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 6,571 Hartford residents head out of town to work, 1,572 work right here, and 6,017 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Hartford.

6,571live here, work elsewhere

1,572live and work here

6,017work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Hartford goes to work

Hartford (in town)right here

19%1,572

Milwaukee27.4 mi away

10%775

Menomonee Falls17.1 mi away

5%384

West Bend11.8 mi away

4%355

Germantown14.1 mi away

4%306

Wauwatosa24.9 mi away

4%290

Slinger5.1 mi away

3%231

Brookfield22.1 mi away

3%219

Waukesha22.7 mi away

3%216

Hartford1 mi away

2%192

Everywhere elseother towns and states

44%3,603

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

How far

How far Hartford commutes

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

30%

43%

19%

30%Under 10 mi

43%10–24 mi

19%25–50 mi

8%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Hartford is balanced between jobs and homes

0.93jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.93 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Hartford are

7,589 jobs are based in Hartford. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Hartford’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Hartford

7,589 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)49%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)37%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month63%

Jobs Hartford residents hold

8,143 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)32%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)50%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month66%

−1%

Jobs based in Hartford, 2013 → 2023: 7,679 → 7,589. 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.