Fayal Township’s household incomes are higher than in 64% of U.S. towns
3.7% of residents live below the poverty line; Minnesota has 9.3%. Fayal Township grades B for jobs and income and D for walkability. Home is the office for 5% of workers, against 18% across Minnesota.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Fayal Township apart
Fayal Township makes and builds things
79% of the jobs based in Fayal Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Fayal Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 23%. The jobs ↓
The jobs in Fayal Township pay better than its residents’ jobs
88% of the jobs based in Fayal Township pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 69% of the jobs Fayal Township residents hold. 95% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Fayal Township. The jobs ↓
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; with 759 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Fayal Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Fayal Township is better than 59% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Fayal Township’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 13% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Fayal 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, Fayal Township could be anywhere from B− to B+.
Goods jobs make up 79% of work in Fayal Township
687 jobs are based in Fayal Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fayal Township, 2013 → 2023: 169 → 687. 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 Fayal Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves Fayal Township for work, and who comes in
On a workday 726 residents head out to work, 33 work right here, and 654 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 (0.91 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.
25% of working residents work in Virginia
Where Fayal Township clocks in
25% of workers
10% 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.
Commuting from Fayal Township: about 23 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fayal Township workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 873 commuters (the 5% 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 Fayal Township works
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.
The commute in Fayal Township is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Fayal Township is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Fayal 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 915 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). 2.1% of Fayal Township households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Fayal Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Fayal Township places 1,624th of 5,343 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
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| 7 | Medicine Lake MN | 1,342 | $184K | 2.7% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Louisville Township MN | 1,361 | $143K | 1.1% | 0.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | Tonka Bay MN | 1,561 | $156K | 3.5% | 9.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,622 | Granville MA | 1,541 | $84K | 10.4% | 5.9% | 2% | B |
| 1,623 | Palmyra Township MI | 1,999 | $85K | 8.2% | 4.2% | 2% | B |
| 1,624 | Fayal Township MN | 1,799 | $87K | 3.7% | 0.0% | 4% | B |
| 1,625 | Temple NH | 1,410 | $94K | 9.4% | 2.5% | 3% | B |
| 1,626 | Lake Summerset IL | 2,364 | $108K | 3.0% | 15.9% | 1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,343 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Fayal Township, the top three, the last and three more from Minnesota.
Next door to Fayal Township
The biggest share goes to Eveleth (6%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Fayal Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fayal Township | – | B | D | 23 min | $86,987 |
| Eveleth | 6% | D | B | 20 min | $50,725 |
| Clinton Township | under 2% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Gilbert | 1% | C | C+ | 20 min | $64,625 |
Same-state neighbors only. Clinton Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Fayal 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 Fayal Township: questions
What is the median household income in Fayal Township?
$86,987 (±$6,478) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fayal Township?
3.7%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fayal Township?
23 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fayal Township work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Virginia (25%, 8 mi), Mountain Iron (12%, 10 mi), Duluth (10%, 47 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Fayal Township walkable?
Fayal Township is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Fayal Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fayal Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fayal 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.