Coan House · Photo: Jonathunder · CC BY-SA 3.0Work means Rochester for more than half of Eyota’s working residents
Eyota grades B for jobs and income and A for walkability. Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 0.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 0.6 in Rochester. For 9% of workers, the job is at home (Minnesota 18%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Eyota
More than half of Eyota works in Rochester
590 working residents, 55%, have their main job in Rochester, 12 miles away. That’s 14 times as many as work in Eyota itself. The commute map ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Eyota
70% of Eyota residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 51% of the jobs based in Eyota pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 96% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Eyota empties out on a workday
About 1,400 people are in Eyota on a workday afternoon, 30% fewer than the 2,000 who live here: 1,000 head out to work and 410 come in. Day and night ↓
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.
Jobs & income in Eyota: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Eyota is better than 58% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Eyota’s grade. It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (2.2%) is left out: Eyota’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Eyota could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
The places Eyota commutes to
Where Eyota clocks in
55% of workers
2% 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.
What the 460 jobs in Eyota are
460 jobs are based in Eyota.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Eyota, 2013 → 2023: 201 → 460. 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 Eyota’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How a workday changes Eyota
On a workday 1,019 residents head out to work, 48 work right here, and 412 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Eyota on a workday afternoon, 30% fewer than live here.
0.43 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 2023, primary jobs.
How long Eyota spends getting to work: about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Eyota workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 854 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Eyota
About 16% 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.
Eyota is easy on foot, hard by bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Eyota is more walkable than 89% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Eyota 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 937 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 100% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 53% 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). 4.7% of Eyota households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of Eyota’s commuters take a bus or train.
1,765th of 5,509: where Eyota ranks among 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,763 | Loyalhanna Township PA | 2,041 | $76K | 7.8% | 4.8% | 8% | B |
| 1,764 | Bear Creek AK | 1,732 | $96K | 3.1% | 6.7% | — | B |
| 1,765 | Eyota MN | 2,013 | $83K | 9.1% | 2.2% | 4% | B |
| 1,766 | Franklin Township IN | 2,473 | $72K | 9.7% | 0.5% | 1% | B |
| 1,767 | Spiceland Township IN | 2,180 | $82K | 14.3% | 2.6% | 11% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Eyota, 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 Eyota: questions
What is the median household income in Eyota?
$82,930 (±$8,499) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Eyota?
9.1%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Eyota?
26 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Eyota work?
4% work in town.
Is Eyota walkable?
Eyota is more walkable than 89% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 11.0 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Eyota without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 100% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Eyota, from the people who make the trip.
More of Eyota
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.