Photo: Myotus · CC BY-SA 4.0A job hub: Clearbrook has 3.0 jobs per working resident, and 537 people come in to work
Working residents average 34 minutes each way (Minnesota 23, U.S. 26). Clearbrook has 563 jobs for 186 working residents. About one in seven work in Clearbrook itself; outside it, Bemidji draws the most (22%, 29 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in Clearbrook by day
On a workday 160 residents head out to work and 26 work right here.
About 850 people are in Clearbrook on a workday afternoon, 80% 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 the people who work in Clearbrook live
Where Clearbrook clocks in
22% of workers
12% 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.
In Clearbrook, 41% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Clearbrook, 2013 → 2023: 679 → 563. 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 Clearbrook’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 34 minutes from Clearbrook
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Clearbrook workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 166 commuters (the 19% 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.
Where in the region Clearbrook works
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.
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 Clearbrook: questions
What is the median household income in Clearbrook?
$48,750 (±$16,451) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Clearbrook?
13.1%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Clearbrook?
34 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 19% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Clearbrook work?
14% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bemidji (22%, 29 mi), Bagley (12%, 12 mi), Leon Township (5%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Clearbrook without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Clearbrook, from the people who make the trip.
More of Clearbrook
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.