Work & commute · Prairie du Sac

Work & commute in Prairie du Sac, WI

Most working residents leave Prairie du Sac for work: only 12% work in town. The top destinations are Madison (25%), Sauk City (12%) and Middleton (5%). Half commute less than 20 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

12%

293 of 2,438 working residents

Typical commute

20 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

24 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

16%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 2,145 Prairie du Sac residents head out of town to work, 293 work right here, and 1,911 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Prairie du Sac.

2,145live here, work elsewhere

293live and work here

1,911work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Prairie du Sac goes to work

Madison21 mi away

25%614

Prairie du Sac (in town)right here

12%293

Sauk City1.4 mi away

12%286

Middleton17.3 mi away

5%128

Baraboo12 mi away

3%67

Waunakee16.8 mi away

2%47

Fitchburg26.4 mi away

2%42

Prairie du Sac3.2 mi away

2%41

Lodi9.8 mi away

1%36

Verona23.1 mi away

1%30

Everywhere elseother towns and states

35%854

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

How far

How far Prairie du Sac commutes

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

28%

47%

17%

28%Under 10 mi

47%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

17%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Prairie du Sac is balanced between jobs and homes

0.90jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.90 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Prairie du Sac are

2,204 jobs are based in Prairie du Sac. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Prairie du Sac’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Prairie du Sac

2,204 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities12%

Services (health, schools, offices…)78%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month66%

Jobs Prairie du Sac residents hold

2,438 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month67%

+34%

Jobs based in Prairie du Sac, 2013 → 2023: 1,649 → 2,204. 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.