Work & commute · Vienna

Work & commute in Vienna, WI

Most working residents leave Vienna for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Madison (36%), Waunakee (9%) and DeForest (5%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

32 of 783 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

21 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

22%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 751 Vienna residents head out of town to work, 32 work right here, and 1,268 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Vienna.

751live here, work elsewhere

32live and work here

1,268work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Vienna goes to work

Madison11.1 mi away

36%278

Waunakee4.8 mi away

9%74

DeForest4.4 mi away

5%36

Sun Prairie10.6 mi away

5%36

Vienna (in town)right here

4%32

Middleton10.5 mi away

4%30

Lodi7.4 mi away

2%17

Fitchburg18.1 mi away

2%16

Prairie du Sac15.7 mi away

2%13

Shorewood Hills11.7 mi away

1%11

Everywhere elseother towns and states

31%240

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

How far

How far Vienna commutes

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

42%

41%

14%

42%Under 10 mi

41%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

14%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Vienna 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 Vienna are

1,300 jobs are based in Vienna. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Vienna’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Vienna

1,300 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)58%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)23%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month17%

Over $3,333 a month69%

Jobs Vienna residents hold

783 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)22%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month17%

Over $3,333 a month68%

+236%

Jobs based in Vienna, 2013 → 2023: 387 → 1,300. 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.