Milwaukee

City Commute Profile

Milwaukee, WI

Where Milwaukee’s 261,155 resident workers go each day — 45.5% work within the area; the top destination beyond it is Wauwatosa.

WisconsinLODES 2023 data
66
Commute Score

66 / 100

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

Milwaukee at a glance
Employed Residents
261,155
Fewer than the city’s total population
Median home–work distance
8.7mi
Straight-line, not road distance
Work Locally
45.5%
Share working within the area
Work from home
12.9%
Residents who work from home (ACS)
Top destination outside city
Wauwatosa
Excludes local — most work in-city

These figures are for Milwaukee 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 Milwaukee 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.

Milwaukee

261,155 commutes, one dot at a time

Milwaukee

Where 261,155 workers commute

Each dot ≈ 75 workers

Where residents work

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

1Milwaukee0.0 mi118,847
2Wauwatosa3.5 mi19,179
3West Allis4.5 mi9,989
4Brookfield8.1 mi9,306
5Menomonee Falls10.3 mi7,471
6Oak Creek12.1 mi5,639
7Waukesha14.7 mi5,600
8New Berlin9.3 mi5,225

Who commutes in

Top origin places for workers who travel into Milwaukee.

1Milwaukee0.0 mi118,847
2West Allis4.5 mi9,574
3Wauwatosa3.5 mi8,402
4Greenfield6.6 mi6,019
5Oak Creek12.1 mi5,930
6Franklin11.0 mi5,207
7Brookfield8.1 mi5,032
8Waukesha14.7 mi4,756

Top industries

The sectors that employ Milwaukee’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 Assistance19.1%
MFManufacturing9.1%
EDEducational Services9.1%
AFAccommodation and Food Services7.9%
FIFinance and Insurance6.7%
ADAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services6.7%
PTProfessional, Scientific, and Technical Services6.6%
RTRetail Trade5.5%
PAPublic Administration5.0%

Milwaukee city profile

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

Population
566,973
Median age
32.4yrs
Median household income
$54,234
Median home value
$184,000
Median gross rent
$1,059/mo
Bachelor’s degree or higher
27.4%
Poverty rate
22.8%

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 Milwaukee

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

6 providers · 3 with fiber
Speed availabilityshare of homes a plan reaches
1 Gbps~all homes
2 Gbps93%
5 Gbps93%
8 Gbps
See all internet providers in Milwaukee

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).