Photo: Jonathunder · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.6 jobs for every working resident, most of Coleraine works elsewhere
Employers in Coleraine report 452 jobs, against 811 working residents. Coleraine grades C+ for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Working from home is the commute for 4% of workers (Minnesota 18%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Coleraine stands out on work
40% of Coleraine works in Grand Rapids
321 working residents, 40%, have their main job in Grand Rapids, 3.9 miles away across the town line. That’s 6 times as many as work in Coleraine itself. The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
30% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Few Coleraine workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 18% across Minnesota. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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 811 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Coleraine’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Coleraine is better than 44% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Coleraine’s grade up (3.1%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 20% of U.S. towns).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Coleraine could be anywhere from C− to B+.
40% of working residents work in Grand Rapids
Where Coleraine clocks in
40% of workers
6% 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.
How many miles Coleraine commutes
About 30% 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.
Each way, about 19 minutes from Coleraine
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Coleraine workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 966 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.
The daily commute in and out of Coleraine
On a workday 758 residents head out to work, 53 work right here, and 399 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,600 people are in Coleraine on a workday afternoon, 18% 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.
The kinds of work in Coleraine
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Coleraine, 2013 → 2023: 572 → 452. 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 Coleraine’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Few in Coleraine walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Coleraine is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Coleraine near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,006 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). 0.4% of Coleraine households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Coleraine’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Coleraine ranks: 2,570th of 5,509 U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Tonka Bay MN | 1,561 | $156K | 3.5% | 9.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 42 | May Township MN | 2,638 | $137K | 2.0% | 0.7% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 53 | Stillwater Township MN | 1,831 | $162K | 3.4% | 3.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,568 | Brooklyn IN | 2,621 | $58K | 18.1% | 3.4% | <1% | C+ |
| 2,569 | Butler IN | 2,673 | $55K | 19.3% | 1.1% | 15% | C+ |
| 2,570 | Coleraine MN | 1,998 | $75K | 10.7% | 3.1% | 7% | C+ |
| 2,571 | Jacksboro TN | 2,235 | $69K | 12.7% | 3.8% | 10% | C+ |
| 2,572 | Wetmore Township PA | 1,567 | $83K | 6.3% | 0.3% | 6% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,509 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Coleraine, the top three, the last and three more from Minnesota.
Bordering towns draw 40% of Coleraine’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Coleraine workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coleraine | – | C+ | B− | 19 min | $74,716 |
| Trout Lake Township | under 2% | C | C− | 32 min | $71,136 |
| La Prairie | under 2% | — | — | 15 min | — |
| Taconite | under 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Grand Rapids | 40% | C− | A | 15 min | $61,029 |
| Bovey | under 2% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Arbo Township | under 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. La Prairie, Taconite, Bovey and Arbo Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Grand Rapids. Darker towns draw more of Coleraine’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 Coleraine: questions
What is the median household income in Coleraine?
$74,716 (±$8,295) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Coleraine?
10.7%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Coleraine?
19 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Coleraine work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Grand Rapids (40%, 4 mi), Hibbing (6%, 26 mi), Cohasset (4%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Coleraine walkable?
Coleraine is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 7.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Coleraine without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and <1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Coleraine, from the people who make the trip.
More of Coleraine
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.