Photo: Skvader · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Albany Township earn more than those in 91% of U.S. towns
The two grades for Albany Township are A for jobs and income and C for walkability. 1.8% of residents live below the poverty line (Minnesota 9.3%). Only 3% work in Albany Township; the top destination outside it is Albany (20%, 3 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Albany Township stands out on work
Income, poverty and work: Albany Township’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Albany Township is better than 87% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Albany Township’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 40% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (15.2%) is left out: Albany Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Albany Township could be anywhere from A− to A.
Where Albany Township goes to work
Where Albany Township clocks in
20% of workers
18% of workers
7% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Who works in Albany Township, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 498 residents head out to work, 14 work right here, and 188 people come in from elsewhere.
About 710 people are in Albany Township on a workday afternoon, 30% fewer than live here.
0.39 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Making and building: 53% of jobs based in Albany Township
202 jobs are based in Albany Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Albany Township, 2014 → 2024: 245 → 202. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Albany Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Albany Township’s commute takes about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Albany Township workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 450 commuters (the 16% who work from home are left out). Across Minnesota: 84% drive alone, 2% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
The distance from Albany Township to work
About 15% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
For most of Albany Township, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Albany Township is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.7% across Minnesota, on an EPA index of 4.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 533 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.0% of Albany Township households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Albany Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Albany Township places 153rd of 3,133 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 6 | Medicine Lake MN | 1,342 | $184K | 2.7% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
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| 21 | Dellwood MN | 1,148 | $225K | 4.1% | 0.9% | 4% | A+ |
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| 23 | Louisville Township MN | 1,361 | $143K | 1.1% | 0.9% | 1% | A+ |
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| 151 | Rock Creek AL | 1,103 | $84K | 2.5% | 2.8% | <1% | A |
| 152 | Salem Township MN | 1,058 | $102K | 1.4% | 1.8% | 1% | A |
| 153 | Albany Township MN | 1,020 | $128K | 1.8% | 15.2% | 3% | A |
| 154 | Laona Township IL | 1,265 | $110K | 0.0% | 23.4% | 1% | A |
| 155 | Aetna Estates CO | 1,010 | $75K | 1.1% | 0.5% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Albany Township, the top three, the last and three more from Minnesota.
Next door to Albany Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Albany Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albany Township | – | A | C | 26 min | $127,946 |
| Krain Township | under 2% | B+ | C+ | 28 min | $101,667 |
| Farming Township | under 2% | B− | C | 25 min | $95,417 |
| Avon Township | under 2% | A− | C− | 27 min | $107,917 |
| Oak Township | under 2% | — | — | 30 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Oak Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Albany Township’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Albany Township: questions
What is the median household income in Albany Township?
$127,946 (±$18,308) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Albany Township?
1.8%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Albany Township?
26 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Albany Township work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Albany (20%, 3 mi), St. Cloud (18%, 22 mi), Avon (7%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Albany Township walkable?
Albany Township is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 4.6 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Albany Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Albany Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Albany Township
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.