Work & commute · Luck

Work & commute in Luck, WI

Most working residents leave Luck for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Luck (9%), St. Croix Falls (5%) and Amery (4%). Half commute less than 23 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

12 of 465 working residents

Typical commute

23 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

28 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

12%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 453 Luck residents head out of town to work, 12 work right here, and 116 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Luck.

453live here, work elsewhere

12live and work here

116work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Luck goes to work

Luck2 mi away

9%44

St. Croix Falls15.6 mi away

5%23

Amery21.3 mi away

4%19

Frederic3.3 mi away

4%17

Grantsburg16.2 mi away

3%13

Osceola22.9 mi away

3%12

Luck (in town)right here

3%12

Balsam Lake9.5 mi away

2%10

St. Paul, MN55.2 mi away

2%9

Milltown6.1 mi away

2%8

Everywhere elseother towns and states

64%298

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

How far

How far Luck commutes

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

23%

29%

19%

30%

23%Under 10 mi

29%10–24 mi

19%25–50 mi

30%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Luck is a commuter town

0.28jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Luck are

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

Jobs based in Luck

128 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities31%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less25%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month43%

Jobs Luck residents hold

465 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)30%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)53%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month58%

+110%

Jobs based in Luck, 2013 → 2023: 61 → 128. 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.