Photo: McGhiever · CC BY-SA 4.0Collinwood Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
6% of workers have no commute at all, next to 18% for Minnesota as a whole. There are 66 jobs in Collinwood Township for 566 working residents. Jobs and income earn Collinwood Township B+; getting around on foot earns it C.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Collinwood Township apart
What’s behind Collinwood Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Collinwood Township is better than 65% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Collinwood Township’s grade up (3.3%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 23% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (3.6%) is left out: Collinwood 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, Collinwood Township could be anywhere from B− to A−.
Who commutes out of Collinwood Township, and who commutes in
On a workday 561 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 61 people come in from elsewhere.
About 710 people are in Collinwood Township on a workday afternoon, 41% 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.
10% of working residents work in Dassel
Where Collinwood Township clocks in
10% of workers
8% 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, not services: 39% of the jobs in Collinwood Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Collinwood Township, 2013 → 2023: 129 → 66. 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 Collinwood Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Collinwood Township takes about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Collinwood Township workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 499 commuters (the 6% 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.
Collinwood Township’s commute, mile by mile
About 18% 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.
For most of Collinwood Township, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Collinwood Township is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.7% across Minnesota, on an EPA index of 4.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 533 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). 0.2% of Collinwood Township households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Collinwood Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Collinwood Township ranks: 880th of 4,312 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | 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+ |
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| 7 | Medicine Lake MN | 1,342 | $184K | 2.7% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
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| 26 | Dellwood MN | 1,148 | $225K | 4.1% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
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| 28 | Louisville Township MN | 1,361 | $143K | 1.1% | 0.9% | 1% | A+ |
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| 878 | Martell WI | 1,187 | $95K | 4.5% | 0.5% | <1% | B+ |
| 879 | Bigfoot TX | 1,067 | $69K | 0.0% | 4.9% | 0% | B+ |
| 880 | Collinwood Township MN | 1,213 | $89K | 3.3% | 3.6% | 1% | B+ |
| 881 | Lincoln Township PA | 1,423 | $81K | 2.4% | 0.6% | 3% | B+ |
| 882 | Eckford Township MI | 1,282 | $83K | 5.3% | 7.7% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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 Collinwood Township, the top three, the last and three more from Minnesota.
Collinwood Township and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Stockholm Township (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Collinwood Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Collinwood Township | – | B+ | C | 27 min | $88,958 |
| Stockholm Township | 2% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Ellsworth Township | under 2% | — | — | 27 min | — |
| Hutchinson Township | under 2% | B+ | C | 24 min | $108,750 |
| Dassel Township | under 2% | — | — | 23 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Stockholm Township and Ellsworth Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Dassel Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Collinwood 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 Collinwood Township: questions
What is the median household income in Collinwood Township?
$88,958 (±$14,110) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Collinwood Township?
3.3%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Collinwood Township?
27 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Collinwood Township work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dassel (10%, 4 mi), Hutchinson (8%, 10 mi), Litchfield (7%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Collinwood Township walkable?
Collinwood Township is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 4.0 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Collinwood Township 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 Collinwood Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Collinwood 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.