Work & commute · Lyons

Work & commute in Lyons, WI

Most working residents leave Lyons for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Lake Geneva (10%), Burlington (9%) and Elkhorn (8%). Half commute less than 17 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
2%
33 of 1,596 working residents
Typical commute
17 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
25 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
2%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,563 Lyons residents head out of town to work, 33 work right here, and 1,340 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Lyons.

1,563live here, work elsewhere
33live and work here
1,340work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Lyons goes to work

DelavanLake GenevaBurlingtonElkhornWaukeshaSalem LakesBloomfieldMadisonMilwaukeeBloomfieldSpring PrairieLyonsDelavanGenevaBurlingtonLake GenevaBurlingtonElkhornMadisonMilwaukeeDelavanGenevaWaukeshaBurlingtonLyons
1
Lake Geneva4.5 mi away
10%152
2
Burlington5.7 mi away
9%150
3
Elkhorn9.3 mi away
8%122
4
Madison62.7 mi away
5%79
5
Milwaukee36.2 mi away
4%66
6
Delavan13.6 mi away
3%43
7
Geneva6.1 mi away
2%37
8
Waukesha27 mi away
2%36
9
Lyons (in town)right here
2%33
10
Burlington6.5 mi away
2%33
Everywhere elseother towns and states
53%845

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

How far

How far Lyons commutes

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

37%Under 10 mi
20%10–24 mi
26%25–50 mi
17%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Lyons is balanced between jobs and homes

0.86jobs per working resident
Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.86 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Lyons are

1,373 jobs are based in Lyons. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Lyons’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Lyons

1,373 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)11%
Trade, transport & utilities4%
Services (health, schools, offices…)85%
$1,250 a month or less22%
$1,251–$3,333 a month34%
Over $3,333 a month44%

Jobs Lyons residents hold

1,596 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)26%
Trade, transport & utilities22%
Services (health, schools, offices…)52%
$1,250 a month or less17%
$1,251–$3,333 a month23%
Over $3,333 a month60%
−3%

Jobs based in Lyons, 2013 → 2023: 1,417 → 1,373. 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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