Photo: Tony Webster from San Francisco, California · CC BY-SA 2.0Work means Duluth for more than half of Duluth Township’s working residents
For 7% of workers, the job is at home, next to 18% for Minnesota as a whole. Jobs and income earn Duluth Township B+; getting around on foot earns it C−. Household incomes here are higher than in 87% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Duluth Township apart on work
More than half of Duluth Township works in Duluth
417 working residents, 51%, have their main job in Duluth, 19 miles away. That’s 10 times as many as work in Duluth Township itself. The commute map ↓
Duluth Township makes and builds things
60% of the jobs based in Duluth Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Duluth Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 20%. The jobs ↓
Duluth Township workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 29 minutes each way, against 23 across Minnesota. Over a year that’s about 222 hours of commuting, 46 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 825 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Duluth Township’s grade explained
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Duluth Township is better than 75% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Duluth Township’s grade up ($116,146, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 37% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Duluth Township could be anywhere from C+ to A.
The places Duluth Township commutes to
Where Duluth Township clocks in
51% of workers
5% 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.
Making and building: 60% of jobs based in Duluth Township
401 jobs are based in Duluth Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Duluth Township, 2014 → 2024: 209 → 401. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Duluth Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Duluth Township: about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Duluth Township workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,014 commuters (the 7% 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 flow of workers through Duluth Township
On a workday 781 residents head out to work, 44 work right here, and 357 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,700 people are in Duluth Township on a workday afternoon, 20% fewer than live here.
0.49 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
The distance from Duluth Township to work
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Driving is how Duluth Township gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Duluth Township is more walkable than 20% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Duluth Township 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 1,095 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 41% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.0% of Duluth Township households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Duluth Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Duluth Township is 967th of 5,404 U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,900
| # | 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Tonka Bay MN | 1,561 | $156K | 3.5% | 9.7% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 37 | May Township MN | 2,638 | $137K | 2.0% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 48 | Stillwater Township MN | 1,831 | $162K | 3.4% | 3.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 965 | Cold Spring NY | 1,998 | $117K | 4.5% | 6.0% | 12% | B+ |
| 966 | Palmer TX | 2,644 | $104K | 4.5% | 7.2% | 4% | B+ |
| 967 | Duluth Township MN | 2,121 | $116K | 8.1% | 2.2% | 5% | B+ |
| 968 | Allegheny Township PA | 2,730 | $91K | 3.1% | 0.5% | 2% | B+ |
| 969 | Cedar Heights MD | 2,213 | $77K | 6.2% | 4.6% | <1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,404 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 61% | 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 Duluth Township, the top three, the last and three more from Minnesota.
Work in the towns next to Duluth Township
The biggest share goes to Lakewood Township (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Duluth Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duluth Township | – | B+ | C− | 29 min | $116,146 |
| Normanna Township | under 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Lakewood Township | 3% | A− | C | 24 min | $111,111 |
| Alden Township | under 2% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Knife River | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Normanna Township and Alden Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Knife River: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Duluth 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 2024, 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 Duluth Township: questions
What is the median household income in Duluth Township?
$116,146 (±$29,980) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Duluth Township?
8.1%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Duluth Township?
29 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Duluth Township work?
5% work in town.
Is Duluth Township walkable?
Duluth Township is more walkable than 20% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.9 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Duluth Township without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Duluth Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Duluth Township
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.