Work & commute · Spring Prairie

Work & commute in Spring Prairie, WI

Most working residents leave Spring Prairie for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Burlington (11%), Elkhorn (6%) and Madison (6%). Half commute less than 20 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

37 of 1,101 working residents

Typical commute

20 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

28 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 1,064 Spring Prairie residents head out of town to work, 37 work right here, and 157 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Spring Prairie.

1,064live here, work elsewhere

37live and work here

157work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Spring Prairie goes to work

Burlington5.5 mi away

11%117

Elkhorn8.9 mi away

6%70

Madison59.8 mi away

6%63

Waukesha21.7 mi away

4%47

Lake Geneva9.2 mi away

4%40

East Troy5.5 mi away

3%38

Spring Prairie (in town)right here

3%37

Milwaukee31.8 mi away

3%35

Waterford8.7 mi away

2%24

Mukwonago10.3 mi away

2%22

Everywhere elseother towns and states

55%608

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

How far

How far Spring Prairie commutes

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

32%

31%

21%

16%

32%Under 10 mi

31%10–24 mi

21%25–50 mi

16%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Spring Prairie is a commuter town

0.18jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Spring Prairie are

194 jobs are based in Spring Prairie. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Spring Prairie’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Spring Prairie

194 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)36%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)41%

$1,250 a month or less32%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month45%

Jobs Spring Prairie residents hold

1,101 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)27%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)51%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month62%

+149%

Jobs based in Spring Prairie, 2013 → 2023: 78 → 194. 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.