Photo: Jared Winkler · CC BY-SA 4.0Jobs and earnings in Bingham Lake, and the trip to work
A typical one-way commute lasts 19 minutes; Minnesota averages 23, the U.S. 26. Home is the office for 8% of workers, next to 18% for Minnesota as a whole. Hardly any work in Bingham Lake itself; outside it, Windom draws the most (24%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Bingham Lake for work, and who comes in
On a workday 54 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 47 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.87 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The towns that employ Bingham Lake’s residents
Where Bingham Lake clocks in
24% of workers
15% 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.
70% of the jobs in Bingham Lake pay over $3,333 a month
47 jobs are based in Bingham Lake.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bingham Lake, 2013 → 2023: 120 → 47. 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 Bingham Lake’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Bingham Lake: about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bingham Lake workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 43 commuters (the 9% 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.
How far Bingham Lake goes to work
About 28% 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.
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 Bingham Lake: questions
What is the median household income in Bingham Lake?
$88,125 (±$45,880) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bingham Lake?
12.6%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bingham Lake?
19 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bingham Lake work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Windom (24%, 4 mi), Mountain Lake Township (15%, 7 mi), Mountain Lake (9%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Bingham Lake without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bingham Lake, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bingham Lake
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.