Farming Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Farming Township grades B− for jobs and income and C for walkability. 99 jobs are based in Farming Township for 469 working residents. Hardly any stay in Farming Township for work; outside it, St. Cloud is the main destination (19%, 19 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Farming Township apart on work
Farming Township’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Farming Township is better than 48% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Farming Township’s grade up ($95,417, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 30% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.6%) is left out: Farming 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, Farming Township could be anywhere from C to B+.
In and out of Farming Township on a workday
On a workday 467 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 97 people come in from elsewhere.
About 650 people are in Farming Township on a workday afternoon, 36% 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 Farming Township goes to work
Where Farming Township clocks in
19% of workers
11% of workers
7% 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.
49% of the jobs in Farming Township make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Farming Township, 2013 → 2023: 121 → 99. 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 Farming Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Farming Township: about 25 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Farming Township workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 393 commuters (the 17% 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.
Where in the region Farming Township works
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.
For most of Farming Township, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Farming Township is more walkable than 26% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.7% across Minnesota, on an EPA index of 3.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 473 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 20% 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 Farming Township households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Farming Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Farming Township is 1,089th of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400 on jobs and income
| # | 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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| 6 | Medicine Lake MN | 1,342 | $184K | 2.7% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 21 | Dellwood MN | 1,148 | $225K | 4.1% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | Louisville Township MN | 1,361 | $143K | 1.1% | 0.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,087 | Burrton Township KS | 1,011 | $80K | 9.6% | 6.0% | 5% | B− |
| 1,088 | Garretson SD | 1,174 | $60K | 5.3% | 6.4% | 5% | B− |
| 1,089 | Farming Township MN | 1,018 | $95K | 11.4% | 0.6% | <1% | B− |
| 1,090 | Montour Township PA | 1,260 | $68K | 9.5% | 5.8% | 2% | B− |
| 1,091 | Monroeville OH | 1,283 | $65K | 7.2% | 5.0% | 10% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 Farming Township, the top three, the last and three more from Minnesota.
How Farming Township compares with the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Farming Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farming Township | – | B− | C | 25 min | $95,417 |
| Collegeville Township | under 3% | B | B | 18 min | $115,909 |
| Albany Township | under 3% | A | C | 26 min | $127,946 |
| St. Martin Township | under 3% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Munson Township | under 3% | A | C− | 28 min | $121,000 |
Same-state neighbors only. St. Martin Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Farming 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 Farming Township: questions
What is the median household income in Farming Township?
$95,417 (±$9,508) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Farming Township?
11.4%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Farming Township?
25 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Farming Township work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are St. Cloud (19%, 19 mi), Albany (11%, 6 mi), Cold Spring (7%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Farming Township walkable?
Farming Township is more walkable than 26% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 3.5 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Farming Township without a car?
0% 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 Farming Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Farming 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.