Photo: Slambo · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.0 jobs for every working resident, most of Florence Township works elsewhere
26 jobs are based in Florence Township for 621 working residents. The two grades for Florence Township are A− for jobs and income and C for walkability. Household incomes here are higher than in 83% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Florence Township in brief
Florence Township’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Florence Township is better than 76% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Florence Township’s grade up (2.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 23% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (4.0%) is left out: Florence 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, Florence Township could be anywhere from B+ to A−.
How many people are in Florence Township by day
On a workday 620 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 25 people come in from elsewhere.
About 970 people are in Florence Township on a workday afternoon, 38% 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 2024, primary jobs.
22% of working residents work in Red Wing
Where Florence Township clocks in
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.
What Florence Township’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Florence Township, 2014 → 2024: 33 → 26. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Florence Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 23 minutes from Florence Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Florence Township workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 705 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.
How many miles Florence Township commutes
About 22% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Florence Township is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Florence Township is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Florence 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 774 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). 2.7% of Florence Township households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Florence Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Florence Township is 820th among 5,794 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
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| 8 | Medicine Lake MN | 1,342 | $184K | 2.7% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Dellwood MN | 1,148 | $225K | 4.1% | 0.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Louisville Township MN | 1,361 | $143K | 1.1% | 0.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 818 | Central City IA | 1,253 | $85K | 3.9% | 4.1% | 5% | A− |
| 819 | Clinton Township IL | 2,009 | $101K | 4.8% | 3.0% | 5% | A− |
| 820 | Florence Township MN | 1,562 | $109K | 2.4% | 4.0% | <1% | A− |
| 821 | Ellsworth Township OH | 2,093 | $84K | 5.6% | 2.3% | 3% | A− |
| 822 | Buffalo Township PA | 1,966 | $94K | 5.9% | 2.8% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 Florence Township, the top three, the last and three more from Minnesota.
The towns next door employ 17% of Florence Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Florence Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florence Township | – | A− | C | 23 min | $109,432 |
| Lake City | 17% | B+ | A− | 20 min | $72,244 |
| Hay Creek Township | under 2% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Lake Township | under 2% | — | — | 21 min | — |
| Wacouta Township | under 2% | — | — | 20 min | — |
| Mount Pleasant Township | under 2% | — | — | 25 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Hay Creek Township: not graded. Lake Township, Wacouta Township and Mount Pleasant Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Lake City. Darker towns draw more of Florence 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 2024, 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 Florence Township: questions
What is the median household income in Florence Township?
$109,432 (±$9,172) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Florence Township?
2.4%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Florence Township?
23 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Florence Township work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Red Wing (22%, 13 mi), Lake City (17%, 6 mi), Rochester (13%, 34 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Florence Township walkable?
Florence Township is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.7 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Florence Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Florence Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Florence Township
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.