Photo: Skvader · CC BY-SA 4.0A job hub: Avon has 2.0 jobs per working resident, and 1,425 people come in to work
About one in ten stay in Avon for work; outside it, St. Cloud is the main destination (24%, 14 miles). There are 1,506 jobs in Avon for 763 working residents. For jobs and income Avon is better than 58% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns (B).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Avon, in brief
Avon makes and builds things
75% of the jobs based in Avon are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Avon residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 25%. The jobs ↓
Avon is where the jobs are
Avon has 1,506 jobs, 2.0 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 2,500 people are in town, 42% more than the 1,800 who live here. Day and night ↓
Avon and St. Cloud trade workers both ways
St. Cloud is the top workplace for Avon residents (24%) and also where the most people who work in Avon come from (11% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 763 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Avon’s Jobs & income grade comes from
Household income holds Avon’s grade up ($91,563, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 46% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (2.6%) is left out: Avon’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Avon could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
75% of the jobs in Avon make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Avon, 2013 → 2023: 1,176 → 1,506. 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 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Avon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Avon fills up on a workday
On a workday 682 residents head out to work and 81 work right here.
About 2,500 people are in Avon on a workday afternoon, 42% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where Avon’s workers come from
Where Avon clocks in
24% of workers
10% 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.
The trip to work from Avon: about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Avon workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 712 commuters (the 11% 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 commute from Avon, by distance
About 19% 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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
For most of Avon, work means a drive
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.7% across Minnesota, on an EPA index of 6.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 798 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). 3.4% of Avon households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Avon’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 6,085 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400, Avon comes 1,826th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Medicine Lake MN | 1,342 | $184K | 2.7% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Louisville Township MN | 1,361 | $143K | 1.1% | 0.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Tonka Bay MN | 1,561 | $156K | 3.5% | 9.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,824 | Pere Marquette Township MI | 2,371 | $85K | 5.9% | 3.3% | 11% | B |
| 1,825 | Woodward IA | 1,426 | $66K | 7.0% | 1.1% | 3% | B |
| 1,826 | Avon MN | 1,777 | $92K | 9.8% | 2.6% | 11% | B |
| 1,827 | Manchester NY | 1,628 | $66K | 7.2% | 0.0% | 4% | B |
| 1,828 | Groton SD | 1,337 | $90K | 4.3% | 1.1% | 12% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Avon, the top three, the last and three more from Minnesota.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, 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 Avon: questions
What is the median household income in Avon?
$91,563 (±$9,564) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Avon?
9.8%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Avon?
22 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Avon work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are St. Cloud (24%, 14 mi), Albany (10%, 6 mi), Waite Park (6%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Avon walkable?
Avon is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.0 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Avon without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Avon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Avon
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, 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.