Photo: bryan&darlene · CC BY-SA 3.0Work, pay and getting to work in Cedar Mills
The average commute, 22 minutes each way, matches the Minnesota norm. Home is the office for 4% of workers; Minnesota has 18%. Hardly any work in Cedar Mills; the top destination outside it is Litchfield (10%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily commute in and out of Cedar Mills
On a workday 21 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 35 people come in from elsewhere.
About 73 people are in Cedar Mills on a workday afternoon, 24% more than live here.
1.7 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
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 Cedar Mills’ workforce comes from
Where Cedar Mills clocks in
10% 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.
Cedar Mills makes things: 100% of its jobs are in goods
35 jobs are based in Cedar Mills.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cedar Mills, 2013 → 2023: 8 → 35. 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 Cedar Mills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 22 minutes from Cedar Mills
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cedar Mills workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 25 commuters (the 4% 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 many miles Cedar Mills commutes
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 Cedar Mills: questions
What is the median household income in Cedar Mills?
$57,500 (±$55,029) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cedar Mills?
12.5%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cedar Mills?
22 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cedar Mills work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Litchfield (10%, 12 mi), Hutchinson (10%, 8 mi), St. Paul (10%, 69 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Cedar Mills without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cedar Mills, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cedar Mills
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.