Work & commute · Little Falls

Work & commute in Little Falls, WI

Most working residents leave Little Falls for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Sparta (22%), La Crosse (11%) and Tomah (9%). Half commute less than 23 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

12 of 684 working residents

Typical commute

23 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

14%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 672 Little Falls residents head out of town to work, 12 work right here, and 152 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Little Falls.

672live here, work elsewhere

12live and work here

152work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Little Falls goes to work

Sparta11.5 mi away

22%153

La Crosse25.6 mi away

11%76

Tomah20.1 mi away

9%64

Onalaska21.7 mi away

3%23

Brockway14.1 mi away

3%18

West Salem17.3 mi away

2%14

Eau Claire58.3 mi away

2%14

Black River Falls14.1 mi away

2%13

Little Falls (in town)right here

2%12

Lafayette7.5 mi away

1%10

Everywhere elseother towns and states

42%287

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

How far

How far Little Falls commutes

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

10%

46%

16%

28%

10%Under 10 mi

46%10–24 mi

16%25–50 mi

28%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Little Falls is a commuter town

0.24jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Little Falls are

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

Jobs based in Little Falls

164 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less29%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month36%

Jobs Little Falls residents hold

684 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)24%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)52%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month61%

+34%

Jobs based in Little Falls, 2013 → 2023: 122 → 164. 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.