Work & commute · Rib Falls

Work & commute in Rib Falls, WI

Most working residents leave Rib Falls for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Wausau (24%), Marathon City (8%) and Merrill (6%). Half commute less than 15 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

14 of 503 working residents

Typical commute

15 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

10%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 489 Rib Falls residents head out of town to work, 14 work right here, and 125 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Rib Falls.

489live here, work elsewhere

14live and work here

125work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Rib Falls goes to work

Wausau12.4 mi away

24%122

Marathon City4.5 mi away

8%38

Merrill16 mi away

6%29

Schofield14.5 mi away

5%25

Weston18.4 mi away

3%16

Medford23.9 mi away

3%14

Rib Falls (in town)right here

3%14

Maine11.3 mi away

3%13

Hamburg5.7 mi away

2%12

Edgar6 mi away

2%11

Everywhere elseother towns and states

42%209

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

How far

How far Rib Falls commutes

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

25%

50%

18%

25%Under 10 mi

50%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

18%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Rib Falls is a commuter town

0.28jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Rib Falls are

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

Jobs based in Rib Falls

139 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)77%

Trade, transport & utilities13%

Services (health, schools, offices…)10%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month54%

Jobs Rib Falls residents hold

503 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)42%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)41%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month60%

+136%

Jobs based in Rib Falls, 2013 → 2023: 59 → 139. 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.