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Work & commute · Luck

Work & commute in Luck, WI

Most working residents leave Luck for work: only 11% work in town. The top destinations are St. Croix Falls (7%), Osceola (4%) and Minneapolis (4%). Half commute less than 22 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
11%
58 of 539 working residents
Typical commute
22 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
26 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
7%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 481 Luck residents head out of town to work, 58 work right here, and 553 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Luck.

481live here, work elsewhere
58live and work here
553work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Luck goes to work

St. PaulMinneapolisFredericMilltownDresserLuckBalsam LakeGrantsburgOsceolaSt. Croix FallsEurekaTrade LakeLuckLaketownMilltownSterlingClam FallsSt. Croix FallsOsceolaMinneapolisFredericDresserBalsam LakeGrantsburgLuckSt. PaulLuck
1
Luck (in town)right here
11%58
2
St. Croix Falls13.9 mi away
7%36
3
Osceola21.1 mi away
4%22
4
Minneapolis, MN57.7 mi away
4%21
5
Frederic5.2 mi away
3%17
6
Dresser17 mi away
3%15
7
Balsam Lake7.5 mi away
3%14
8
Grantsburg17.7 mi away
3%14
9
Luck2 mi away
3%14
10
St. Paul, MN53.4 mi away
2%11
Everywhere elseother towns and states
59%317

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.

25%Under 10 mi
28%10–24 mi
16%25–50 mi
31%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Luck is balanced between jobs and homes

1.13jobs per working resident
Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.13 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Luck are

611 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

611 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)50%
Trade, transport & utilities10%
Services (health, schools, offices…)39%
$1,250 a month or less17%
$1,251–$3,333 a month29%
Over $3,333 a month54%

Jobs Luck residents hold

539 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)29%
Trade, transport & utilities16%
Services (health, schools, offices…)55%
$1,250 a month or less14%
$1,251–$3,333 a month29%
Over $3,333 a month58%
+1%

Jobs based in Luck, 2013 → 2023: 607 → 611. 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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