Work & commute · Sugar Creek

Work & commute in Sugar Creek, WI

Most working residents leave Sugar Creek for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Elkhorn (12%), Delavan (6%) and Lake Geneva (5%). Half commute less than 20 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

47 of 2,027 working residents

Typical commute

20 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

27 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 1,980 Sugar Creek residents head out of town to work, 47 work right here, and 300 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Sugar Creek.

1,980live here, work elsewhere

47live and work here

300work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Sugar Creek goes to work

Elkhorn4.7 mi away

12%243

Delavan6.1 mi away

6%112

Lake Geneva13 mi away

5%100

Madison49 mi away

4%89

Whitewater10.6 mi away

4%77

Janesville20.8 mi away

4%75

Waukesha27.2 mi away

3%59

Milwaukee40.3 mi away

3%57

Sugar Creek (in town)right here

2%47

New Berlin29.9 mi away

2%38

Everywhere elseother towns and states

56%1,130

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

How far

How far Sugar Creek commutes

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

28%

30%

31%

11%

28%Under 10 mi

30%10–24 mi

31%25–50 mi

11%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Sugar Creek is a commuter town

0.17jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Sugar Creek are

347 jobs are based in Sugar Creek. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Sugar Creek’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Sugar Creek

347 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)48%

Trade, transport & utilities4%

Services (health, schools, offices…)47%

$1,250 a month or less27%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month52%

Jobs Sugar Creek residents hold

2,027 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)28%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)53%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month64%

+7%

Jobs based in Sugar Creek, 2013 → 2023: 323 → 347. 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.