Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 4.0Household incomes in Frazee trail those of 91% of U.S. towns
9% of workers work from home (Minnesota 18%). 22.3% of residents live below the poverty line (Minnesota 9.3%). Jobs and income earn Frazee D; getting around on foot earns it A−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Frazee
Where Frazee’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Frazee is better than 6% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Frazee’s grade.
Unemployment (7.1%) is left out: Frazee’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, Frazee could be anywhere from D− to D.
42% of working residents work in Detroit Lakes
Where Frazee clocks in
42% of workers
5% 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.
Frazee quiets down on a workday
On a workday 557 residents head out to work, 34 work right here, and 377 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Frazee on a workday afternoon, 14% fewer than live here.
0.70 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.
Jobs in Frazee: what the 411 are
411 jobs are based in Frazee.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Frazee, 2013 → 2023: 250 → 411. 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 Frazee’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Frazee spends getting to work: about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Frazee workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 618 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Frazee
About 27% 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.
Frazee is easy on foot, hard by bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Frazee is more walkable than 78% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 12.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.7% across Minnesota, on an EPA index of 6.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 678 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 15.8% of Frazee households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Frazee’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Frazee is 4,829th of 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Medicine Lake MN | 1,342 | $184K | 2.7% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Dellwood MN | 1,148 | $225K | 4.1% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Louisville Township MN | 1,361 | $143K | 1.1% | 0.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,827 | Dovesville SC | 1,120 | $32K | 52.9% | 5.0% | <1% | D |
| 4,828 | Norman Park GA | 1,007 | $51K | 21.5% | 5.3% | 2% | D |
| 4,829 | Frazee MN | 1,310 | $47K | 22.3% | 7.1% | 6% | D |
| 4,830 | Ackerman MS | 1,536 | $48K | 21.3% | 23.6% | 16% | D |
| 4,831 | Elkhart TX | 1,265 | $53K | 28.0% | 17.0% | 10% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Frazee, 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 Frazee: questions
What is the median household income in Frazee?
$47,016 (±$8,187) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Frazee?
22.3%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Frazee?
19 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Frazee work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Detroit Lakes (42%, 9 mi), Fargo (5%, 54 mi), Erie Township (4%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Frazee walkable?
Frazee is more walkable than 78% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 13% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Frazee without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 16% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Frazee, from the people who make the trip.
More of Frazee
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.