Kenosha

City Commute Profile

Kenosha, WI

Where Kenosha’s 50,813 resident workers go each day — 29.7% work within the area; the top destination beyond it is Pleasant Prairie.

WisconsinLODES 2023 data
62
Commute Score

62 / 100

How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.

Kenosha at a glance
Employed Residents
50,813
Fewer than the city’s total population
Median home–work distance
16.1mi
Straight-line, not road distance
Work Locally
29.7%
Share working within the area
Work from home
9.7%
Residents who work from home (ACS)
Top destination outside city
Pleasant Prairie
Excludes local — most work in-city

These figures are for Kenosha proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.

How Kenosha commutes

Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.

Kenosha

50,813 commutes, one dot at a time

Kenosha

Where 50,813 workers commute

Each dot ≈ 75 workers

Where residents work

Top destinations for people who live in Kenosha, by worker count.

1Kenosha0.0 mi15,100
2Pleasant Prairie3.4 mi5,427
3Milwaukee32.9 mi2,335
4Racine10.1 mi2,306
5Mount Pleasant8.9 mi1,775
6Waukegan14.6 mi1,051
7Chicago51.4 mi928
8Somers3.7 mi716

Who commutes in

Top origin places for workers who travel into Kenosha.

1Kenosha0.0 mi15,100
2Racine10.1 mi3,229
3Pleasant Prairie3.4 mi2,636
4Milwaukee32.9 mi1,842
5Mount Pleasant8.9 mi1,319
6Somers3.7 mi1,130
7Salem Lakes14.7 mi813
8Caledonia14.4 mi779

Top industries

The sectors that employ Kenosha’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.

Bar length = each sector’s share of all local jobs (0–100%)
HCHealth Care and Social Assistance14.6%
TRTransportation and Warehousing13.9%
EDEducational Services9.9%
MFManufacturing9.8%
AFAccommodation and Food Services9.3%
RTRetail Trade8.8%
ADAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services7.4%
WSWholesale Trade7.0%
PAPublic Administration5.6%

Kenosha city profile

Who lives in Kenosha — population, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Population
99,372
Median age
37.1yrs
Median household income
$71,239
Median home value
$225,200
Median gross rent
$1,186/mo
Bachelor’s degree or higher
29.0%
Poverty rate
13.7%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.

Connectivity

Internet options for Kenosha

The biggest home-internet providers in the area — tap any to compare local plans.

5 providers · 2 with fiber
Speed availabilityshare of homes a plan reaches
1 Gbps~all homes
2 Gbps90%
5 Gbps81%
8 Gbps
See all internet providers in Kenosha

FindBetterInternet is a CensusFlow partner site — we link out so you can compare local plans, and CensusFlow’s Census data stays independent. Provider data is from the FCC National Broadband Map (satellite + fixed wireless excluded).