Most of Bricelyn commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
Home is the office for 9% of workers, next to 18% for Minnesota as a whole. 28 jobs are based in Bricelyn, and 84 of its residents work somewhere. Only 1% work in Bricelyn itself; outside it, Blue Earth draws the most (23%, 15 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in Bricelyn by day
On a workday 83 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 27 people come in from elsewhere.
About 300 people are in Bricelyn on a workday afternoon, 16% fewer 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 Bricelyn’s working residents head each day
Where Bricelyn clocks in
6% 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.
Most jobs in Bricelyn are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bricelyn, 2013 → 2023: 29 → 28. 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 Bricelyn’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Bricelyn spends getting to work: about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bricelyn workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 146 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.
Half of Bricelyn commutes less than 22 miles
About 33% 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 Bricelyn: questions
What is the median household income in Bricelyn?
$52,750 (±$13,771) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bricelyn?
10.8%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bricelyn?
30 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bricelyn work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Blue Earth (23%, 15 mi), Kiester (6%, 5 mi), Mankato (6%, 43 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Bricelyn without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bricelyn, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bricelyn
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.