Photo: Nathan.besteman · CC BY 3.0Household incomes in Edgerton trail those of 60% of U.S. towns
Home is the office for 9% of workers, next to 18% for Minnesota as a whole. 5.1% of residents live below the poverty line; Minnesota has 9.3%. For jobs and income Edgerton is better than 41% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 87% of U.S. towns (A).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Edgerton in brief
Income, poverty and work: Edgerton’s grade explained
The poverty rate holds Edgerton’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 11% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (3.2%) is left out: Edgerton’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, Edgerton could be anywhere from C to B−.
Getting to work from Edgerton takes about 14 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Edgerton workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 489 commuters (the 9% 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.
Edgerton by day and by night
On a workday 413 residents head out to work, 148 work right here, and 422 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.02 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
12% of working residents work in Pipestone
Where Edgerton clocks in
Lines 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.
A place that makes things: 33% of Edgerton’s jobs are in goods
570 jobs are based in Edgerton.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Edgerton, 2013 → 2023: 459 → 570. 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 Edgerton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Edgerton
About 20% 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Edgerton
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 9.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.7% across Minnesota, on an EPA index of 8.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 539 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). 5.7% of Edgerton households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Edgerton’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Edgerton ranks: 2,119th of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Medicine Lake MN | 1,342 | $184K | 2.7% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Dellwood MN | 1,148 | $225K | 4.1% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 31 | Louisville Township MN | 1,361 | $143K | 1.1% | 0.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,117 | St. Croix Falls WI | 1,171 | $82K | 12.6% | 3.1% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,118 | French Settlement LA | 1,166 | $72K | 17.8% | 5.8% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,119 | Edgerton MN | 1,256 | $69K | 5.1% | 3.2% | 26% | C+ |
| 2,120 | Minneota MN | 1,357 | $74K | 6.7% | 2.6% | 8% | C+ |
| 2,121 | Washington Township IN | 1,366 | $82K | 11.9% | 4.4% | 3% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Edgerton, the top three, the last and three more from Minnesota.
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 Edgerton: questions
What is the median household income in Edgerton?
$68,894 (±$6,006) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Edgerton?
5.1%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Edgerton?
14 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Edgerton work?
26% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Pipestone (12%, 12 mi), Sioux Falls (7%, 38 mi), Osborne Township (6%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Edgerton walkable?
Edgerton is more walkable than 87% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.3 out of 20, and 9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Edgerton without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Edgerton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Edgerton
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.