Work & commute · Mount Pleasant

Work & commute in Mount Pleasant, WI

Most working residents leave Mount Pleasant for work: only 11% work in town. The top destinations are Racine (19%), Milwaukee (11%) and Kenosha (9%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

11%

1,462 of 13,599 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

21 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

13%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 12,137 Mount Pleasant residents head out of town to work, 1,462 work right here, and 13,705 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mount Pleasant.

12,137live here, work elsewhere

1,462live and work here

13,705work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mount Pleasant goes to work

Racine3.8 mi away

19%2,565

Mount Pleasant (in town)right here

11%1,462

Milwaukee24.8 mi away

11%1,460

Kenosha8.4 mi away

9%1,227

Sturtevant1.1 mi away

4%554

Pleasant Prairie12.6 mi away

3%404

Oak Creek11.8 mi away

3%371

Caledonia6.1 mi away

2%303

Yorkville6 mi away

2%256

Wauwatosa25.6 mi away

2%231

Everywhere elseother towns and states

35%4,766

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

How far

How far Mount Pleasant commutes

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

46%

29%

14%

10%

46%Under 10 mi

29%10–24 mi

14%25–50 mi

10%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mount Pleasant is balanced between jobs and homes

1.12jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.12 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Mount Pleasant are

15,167 jobs are based in Mount Pleasant. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Mount Pleasant’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Mount Pleasant

15,167 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities27%

Services (health, schools, offices…)50%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month53%

Jobs Mount Pleasant residents hold

13,599 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)25%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)53%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month64%

+49%

Jobs based in Mount Pleasant, 2013 → 2023: 10,192 → 15,167. 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.