Work & commute · Swiss

Work & commute in Swiss, WI

Most working residents leave Swiss for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Webster (13%), La Follette (5%) and Siren (3%). Half commute less than 25 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

23 of 264 working residents

Typical commute

25 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 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 241 Swiss residents head out of town to work, 23 work right here, and 295 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Swiss.

241live here, work elsewhere

23live and work here

295work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Swiss goes to work

Webster10.5 mi away

13%35

Swiss (in town)right here

9%23

La Follette17.7 mi away

5%14

Siren17.5 mi away

3%9

Scott11.8 mi away

3%9

Meenon12.1 mi away

3%8

Frederic26.9 mi away

3%7

Grantsburg24.8 mi away

3%7

Eau Claire91.9 mi away

3%7

Spooner23.9 mi away

2%6

Everywhere elseother towns and states

53%139

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

How far

How far Swiss commutes

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

24%

25%

17%

34%

24%Under 10 mi

25%10–24 mi

17%25–50 mi

34%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Swiss is balanced between jobs and homes

1.20jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.20 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Swiss are

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

Jobs based in Swiss

318 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities6%

Services (health, schools, offices…)80%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month45%

Jobs Swiss residents hold

264 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month55%

−26%

Jobs based in Swiss, 2013 → 2023: 428 → 318. 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.