Work & commute · Phelps

Work & commute in Phelps, WI

Most working residents leave Phelps for work: only 10% work in town. The top destinations are Eagle River (17%), Lincoln (6%) and Land O'Lakes (5%). Half commute less than 22 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

10%

51 of 504 working residents

Typical commute

22 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 453 Phelps residents head out of town to work, 51 work right here, and 155 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Phelps.

453live here, work elsewhere

51live and work here

155work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Phelps goes to work

Eagle River12.5 mi away

17%84

Phelps (in town)right here

10%51

Lincoln12.9 mi away

6%29

Land O'Lakes17 mi away

5%25

Rhinelander33.4 mi away

5%24

Washington8 mi away

4%21

Conover10.6 mi away

3%15

Watersmeet, MI15.7 mi away

2%11

Wausau80.1 mi away

2%10

Minocqua42.3 mi away

2%9

Everywhere elseother towns and states

45%225

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

How far

How far Phelps commutes

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

19%

32%

11%

38%

19%Under 10 mi

32%10–24 mi

11%25–50 mi

38%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Phelps is a commuter town

0.41jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Phelps are

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

Jobs based in Phelps

206 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)26%

Trade, transport & utilities4%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less29%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month34%

Jobs Phelps residents hold

504 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less24%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month45%

−14%

Jobs based in Phelps, 2013 → 2023: 239 → 206. 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.