Photo: Myotus · CC BY 4.0Most of Gilbert commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
At home: 5% of workers have no commute at all (Minnesota 18%). Gilbert has 212 jobs for 689 working residents. Jobs and income earn Gilbert C; getting around on foot earns it C+.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Gilbert
What’s behind Gilbert’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Gilbert is better than 31% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Gilbert’s grade up (8.8%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 21% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (2.2%) is left out: Gilbert’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, Gilbert could be anywhere from C− to B−.
A workday in Gilbert: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 646 residents head out to work, 43 work right here, and 169 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Gilbert on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
26% of working residents work in Virginia
Where Gilbert clocks in
26% of workers
9% 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 Gilbert’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Gilbert, 2013 → 2023: 184 → 212. 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 Gilbert’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Gilbert takes about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Gilbert workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 691 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Gilbert
About 24% 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.
In Gilbert, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Gilbert is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Gilbert 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 730 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 Gilbert households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Gilbert’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,200, Gilbert ranks 3,138th of 5,381 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Medicine Lake MN | 1,342 | $184K | 2.7% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | Louisville Township MN | 1,361 | $143K | 1.1% | 0.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Tonka Bay MN | 1,561 | $156K | 3.5% | 9.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,136 | Hydesville CA | 1,263 | $97K | 17.0% | 10.7% | 3% | C |
| 3,137 | Berrien Springs MI | 1,767 | $65K | 13.4% | 6.5% | 7% | C |
| 3,138 | Gilbert MN | 1,644 | $65K | 8.8% | 2.2% | 6% | C |
| 3,139 | Jefferson Township OH | 1,393 | $93K | 13.8% | 3.6% | 1% | C |
| 3,140 | Collinsville MS | 1,725 | $79K | 13.6% | 4.7% | 4% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,381 | 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 Gilbert, the top three, the last and three more from Minnesota.
The towns next door employ 33% of Gilbert
The biggest share goes to Virginia (26%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Gilbert workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gilbert | – | C | C+ | 20 min | $64,625 |
| Virginia | 26% | D | A− | 18 min | $51,720 |
| Biwabik Township | under 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Fayal Township | 3% | B | D | 23 min | $86,987 |
| Eveleth | 4% | D | B | 20 min | $50,725 |
Same-state neighbors only. Biwabik Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Gilbert’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 Gilbert: questions
What is the median household income in Gilbert?
$64,625 (±$10,448) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Gilbert?
8.8%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Gilbert?
20 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Gilbert work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Virginia (26%, 4 mi), Mountain Iron (12%, 8 mi), Duluth (9%, 52 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Gilbert walkable?
Gilbert is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 6.2 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Gilbert without a car?
<1% 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 Gilbert, from the people who make the trip.
More of Gilbert
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.