Work & commute · St. Francis

Work & commute in St. Francis, WI

Most working residents leave St. Francis for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Milwaukee (38%), Wauwatosa (6%) and Oak Creek (4%). Half commute less than 8 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

173 of 4,704 working residents

Typical commute

8 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

21%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 4,531 St. Francis residents head out of town to work, 173 work right here, and 1,971 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Francis.

4,531live here, work elsewhere

173live and work here

1,971work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Francis goes to work

Milwaukee8 mi away

38%1,803

Wauwatosa10.4 mi away

6%272

Oak Creek6.5 mi away

4%204

St. Francis (in town)right here

4%173

Cudahy1.7 mi away

3%163

West Allis8.3 mi away

3%135

Brookfield14 mi away

3%128

Franklin9.3 mi away

2%102

Menomonee Falls18.1 mi away

2%94

Waukesha19.1 mi away

2%92

Everywhere elseother towns and states

33%1,538

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

How far

How far St. Francis commutes

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

60%

26%

60%Under 10 mi

26%10–24 mi

5%25–50 mi

9%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Francis is a commuter town

0.46jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Francis are

2,144 jobs are based in St. Francis. Here is what they are, next to the jobs St. Francis’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in St. Francis

2,144 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)54%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month53%

Jobs St. Francis residents hold

4,704 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month65%

−3%

Jobs based in St. Francis, 2013 → 2023: 2,210 → 2,144. 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.