Photo: Richard N Horne · CC BY-SA 4.0Felton Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
8% of workers work from home; Minnesota has 18%. 9 jobs are based in Felton Township for 36 working residents. Hardly any work in Felton Township itself; outside it, Fargo draws the most (36%, 23 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Felton Township, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 36 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 9 people come in from elsewhere.
About 54 people are in Felton Township on a workday afternoon, 33% 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 Felton Township goes to work
Where Felton Township clocks in
36% of workers
8% of workers
8% 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.
A place that makes things: 89% of Felton Township’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Felton Township, 2013 → 2023: 18 → 9. 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 Felton Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 30 minutes in Felton Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Felton Township workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 35 commuters (the 8% 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 Felton Township
About 17% 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.
Felton Township and the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Felton Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Felton Township | – | — | — | 30 min | $89,375 |
| Hagen Township | under 3% | — | — | 32 min | — |
| Flowing Township | under 3% | — | — | 25 min | — |
| Viding Township | under 3% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Winchester Township | under 3% | — | — | 6 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Hagen Township, Flowing Township, Viding Township and Winchester Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Felton 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 Felton Township: questions
What is the median household income in Felton Township?
$89,375 (±$82,649) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Felton Township?
7.5%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Felton Township?
30 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Felton Township work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fargo (36%, 23 mi), Hawley (8%, 18 mi), West Fargo (8%, 26 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Felton 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 Felton Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Felton 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.