Work & commute · Phillips

Work & commute in Phillips, WI

About one in 3 of Phillips’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Worcester (7%), Park Falls (4%) and Medford (3%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

39%

250 of 648 working residents

Typical commute

13 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

21 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 398 Phillips residents head out of town to work, 250 work right here, and 1,596 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Phillips.

398live here, work elsewhere

250live and work here

1,596work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Phillips goes to work

Phillips (in town)right here

39%250

Worcester5.5 mi away

7%44

Park Falls16.9 mi away

4%27

Medford38.7 mi away

3%18

Prentice11.8 mi away

2%15

Eau Claire80.4 mi away

2%15

Hawkins19.6 mi away

2%14

Menomonie91.9 mi away

2%13

Elk5.4 mi away

2%11

Ladysmith37.1 mi away

1%9

Everywhere elseother towns and states

36%232

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

How far

How far Phillips commutes

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

47%

11%

33%

47%Under 10 mi

11%10–24 mi

9%25–50 mi

33%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Phillips is a job hub

2.85jobs per working resident

A job hub

2.8 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Phillips are

1,846 jobs are based in Phillips. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Phillips’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Phillips

1,846 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)45%

Trade, transport & utilities9%

Services (health, schools, offices…)46%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month64%

Jobs Phillips residents hold

648 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)40%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)44%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month56%

−1%

Jobs based in Phillips, 2013 → 2023: 1,861 → 1,846. 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.