99% of Seneca’s working residents leave town for work
Most working residents leave Seneca for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Wisconsin Rapids (22%), Stevens Point (7%) and Marshfield (5%). Half commute less than 21 miles.
What kind of work town is Seneca?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
22% of working residents work in Wisconsin Rapids
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Seneca clocks in
Lines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
24% of Seneca works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Wisconsin Rapids (22%). Darker towns draw more of Seneca’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Average commute minutes, one way
Seneca quiets down on a workday
On a workday 472 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 72 people come in from elsewhere.
About 480 people are in Seneca on a workday afternoon, 45% fewer than live here.
0.16 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Half of Seneca commutes less than 21 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 30% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Seneca makes things: 58% of its jobs are in goods
77 jobs are based in Seneca. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Seneca’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Seneca, 2013 → 2023: 65 → 77. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
About 23 minutes each way, about the WI average
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Seneca workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
- Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
More of Seneca
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Seneca, from the people who make the trip.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.