Work & commute · Spooner

Work & commute in Spooner, WI

About one in 4 of Spooner’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Rice Lake (7%), Shell Lake (5%) and Beaver Brook (4%). Half commute less than 23 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

25%

279 of 1,103 working residents

Typical commute

23 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

18 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

15%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 824 Spooner residents head out of town to work, 279 work right here, and 1,552 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Spooner.

824live here, work elsewhere

279live and work here

1,552work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Spooner goes to work

Spooner (in town)right here

25%279

Rice Lake24.5 mi away

7%76

Shell Lake7 mi away

5%52

Beaver Brook4.9 mi away

4%41

Minong20.2 mi away

3%32

Hayward22.8 mi away

3%29

Eau Claire72.2 mi away

2%26

Barron29.3 mi away

2%19

Hayward25.7 mi away

2%19

Cumberland21.1 mi away

2%18

Everywhere elseother towns and states

46%512

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

How far

How far Spooner commutes

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

38%

22%

10%

30%

38%Under 10 mi

22%10–24 mi

10%25–50 mi

30%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Spooner is a job hub

1.66jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Spooner are

1,831 jobs are based in Spooner. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Spooner’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Spooner

1,831 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities26%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less25%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month43%

Jobs Spooner residents hold

1,103 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)56%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month47%

−3%

Jobs based in Spooner, 2013 → 2023: 1,893 → 1,831. 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.