Photo: Jon Platek · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.6 jobs for every working resident, most of Cokato Township works elsewhere
11% of workers have no commute at all (Minnesota 18%). 338 jobs are based in Cokato Township, and 606 of its residents work somewhere. Only 3% stay in Cokato Township for work; outside it, Cokato is the main destination (24%, 3 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Cokato Township in brief
Cokato Township and Cokato trade workers both ways
Cokato is the top workplace for Cokato Township residents (24%) and also where the most people who work in Cokato Township come from (13% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Cokato Township makes and builds things
52% of the jobs based in Cokato Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Cokato Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 37%. The jobs ↓
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 606 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Cokato Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Cokato Township is better than 69% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Cokato Township’s grade up (3.0%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 31% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (3.2%) is left out: Cokato Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Cokato Township could be anywhere from B− to A−.
The places Cokato Township commutes to
Where Cokato Township clocks in
24% of workers
4% 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.
Goods jobs make up 52% of work in Cokato Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cokato Township, 2013 → 2023: 129 → 338. 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 Cokato Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The workday shuffle in and out of Cokato Township
On a workday 585 residents head out to work, 21 work right here, and 317 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Cokato Township on a workday afternoon, 19% 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.
About 23 minutes each way, about the MN average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cokato Township workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 428 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.
Miles to work from Cokato Township
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.
Driving is how Cokato Township gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cokato Township is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.7% across Minnesota, on an EPA index of 6.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 480 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 5.0% of Cokato Township households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Cokato Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Cokato Township is 1,074th of 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Medicine Lake MN | 1,342 | $184K | 2.7% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Dellwood MN | 1,148 | $225K | 4.1% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 35 | Louisville Township MN | 1,361 | $143K | 1.1% | 0.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,072 | Henryville IN | 1,691 | $72K | 6.9% | 1.7% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,073 | Anna Maria FL | 1,023 | $104K | 6.0% | 0.0% | 13% | B+ |
| 1,074 | Cokato Township MN | 1,406 | $87K | 3.0% | 3.2% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,075 | Litchfield NY | 1,428 | $88K | 5.5% | 4.4% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,076 | Clearfield Township PA | 1,569 | $88K | 2.4% | 1.6% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Cokato Township, the top three, the last and three more from Minnesota.
Cokato Township and its neighbors: 28% work next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Cokato Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cokato Township | – | B+ | B− | 23 min | $86,667 |
| Cokato | 24% | C+ | A− | 29 min | $70,288 |
| Middleville Township | under 3% | B+ | C+ | 28 min | $117,500 |
| Dassel Township | under 3% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| French Lake Township | under 3% | B+ | D | 37 min | $104,940 |
| Stockholm Township | 4% | — | — | 30 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Dassel Township: not graded. Stockholm Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Cokato. Darker towns draw more of Cokato Township’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Cokato Township: questions
What is the median household income in Cokato Township?
$86,667 (±$20,094) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cokato Township?
3.0%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cokato Township?
23 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cokato Township work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cokato (24%, 3 mi), Howard Lake (6%, 8 mi), Dassel (4%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cokato Township walkable?
Cokato Township is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.2 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cokato Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cokato Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cokato Township
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.