Clearwater Evangelical Lutheran Church · Photo: Peter and Gloria McLure · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Equality Township commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
Employers in Equality Township report 12 jobs; 79 of its residents have a job. Only 1% work in Equality Township itself; outside it, Thief River Falls draws the most (28%, 24 miles). Home is the office for 1% of workers (Minnesota 18%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Equality Township on a workday afternoon
On a workday 78 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 11 people come in from elsewhere.
About 77 people are in Equality Township on a workday afternoon, 47% 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.
Where Equality Township’s working residents head each day
Where Equality Township clocks in
13% of workers
13% 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 100% of work in Equality Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Equality Township, 2013 → 2023: 11 → 12. 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 Equality Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Equality Township: about 52 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 16.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Equality Township workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 75 commuters (the 1% 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 distance from Equality Township to work
About 35% 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.
Equality Township and its neighbors
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Equality Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Equality Township | – | — | — | 52 min | $150,417 |
| Johnson Township | under 2% | — | — | 42 min | — |
| Garnes Township | under 2% | — | — | 25 min | — |
| Deer Park Township | under 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Chester Township | under 2% | — | — | 18 min | — |
| Hickory Township | under 2% | — | — | 25 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Johnson Township, Garnes Township, Deer Park Township, Chester Township and Hickory Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Equality 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.
- Two counts of out-of-state work. The Census survey asks workers where they work: 0% of Equality Township workers work outside Minnesota. The job records count 13% at employers in other states. The records use the address the employer reports and skip the self-employed, so the two can differ.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Equality Township: questions
What is the median household income in Equality Township?
$150,417 (±$48,156) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Equality Township?
1.6%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Equality Township?
52 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Equality Township work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Thief River Falls (28%, 24 mi), Oklee (13%, 6 mi), Fargo (13%, 87 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Equality Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Equality Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Equality 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.