Work & commute · La Follette

Work & commute in La Follette, WI

Most working residents leave La Follette for work: only 19% work in town. The top destinations are Webster (7%), Turtle Lake (6%) and Siren (5%). Half commute less than 15 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

19%

37 of 197 working residents

Typical commute

15 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

33 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 160 La Follette residents head out of town to work, 37 work right here, and 500 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in La Follette.

160live here, work elsewhere

37live and work here

500work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where La Follette goes to work

La Follette (in town)right here

19%37

Webster9.5 mi away

7%14

Turtle Lake26.6 mi away

6%11

Siren6.7 mi away

5%9

Grantsburg20.9 mi away

5%9

Spooner17.7 mi away

4%8

Shell Lake16.4 mi away

4%8

Superior64.3 mi away

4%7

Meenon6.9 mi away

3%6

Siren4.2 mi away

2%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

43%84

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

How far

How far La Follette commutes

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

34%

30%

13%

22%

34%Under 10 mi

30%10–24 mi

13%25–50 mi

22%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

La Follette is a job hub

2.73jobs per working resident

A job hub

2.7 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in La Follette are

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

Jobs based in La Follette

537 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)2%

Trade, transport & utilities0%

Services (health, schools, offices…)98%

$1,250 a month or less6%

$1,251–$3,333 a month50%

Over $3,333 a month44%

Jobs La Follette residents hold

197 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month49%

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Jobs based in La Follette, 2013 → 2023: 538 → 537. 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.