Photo: McGhiever · CC BY-SA 4.0Glenwood’s household incomes are lower than in 95% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 18.4% of residents, next to 9.3% for Minnesota as a whole. Jobs and income earn Glenwood C; getting around on foot earns it A. 7% of workers work from home (Minnesota 18%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Glenwood stands out on work
Jobs & income in Glenwood: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Glenwood is better than 30% of U.S. towns, #237 of 273 in Minnesota. Unemployment holds Glenwood’s grade up (hardly any, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($42,188, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Glenwood could be anywhere from C− to C+.
Glenwood fills up on a workday
On a workday 725 residents head out to work, 417 work right here, and 1,762 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,700 people are in Glenwood on a workday afternoon, 39% more than live here.
1.9 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
The towns that send workers to Glenwood
Where Glenwood clocks in
18% of workers
4% of workers
3% 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.
Jobs in Glenwood: what the 2,179 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Glenwood, 2014 → 2024: 2,016 → 2,179. 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 Glenwood’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Glenwood: about 21 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Glenwood workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,141 commuters (the 7% 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 far it is to work from Glenwood
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Glenwood
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Glenwood is more walkable than 91% of U.S. towns, #17 of 273 in Minnesota. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 18.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.7% across Minnesota, on an EPA index of 8.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,221 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). 17.2% of Glenwood households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Glenwood’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,800 to 3,600, Glenwood ranks 3,514th of 5,278 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Greenfield MN | 2,962 | $154K | 1.2% | 0.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Empire MN | 3,063 | $148K | 1.9% | 0.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 39 | May Township MN | 2,638 | $137K | 2.0% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,512 | Creola AL | 1,963 | $67K | 18.3% | 2.5% | 2% | C |
| 3,513 | Jean Lafitte LA | 1,858 | $64K | 13.1% | 16.1% | 6% | C |
| 3,514 | Glenwood MN | 2,631 | $42K | 18.4% | 0.0% | 37% | C |
| 3,515 | Union OR | 2,118 | $65K | 18.9% | 1.7% | 8% | C |
| 3,516 | Newport ME | 3,192 | $60K | 12.6% | 4.0% | 19% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,278 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 61% | 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 Glenwood, the top three, the last and three more from Minnesota.
Glenwood and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Glenwood Township (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Glenwood workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glenwood | – | C | A | 21 min | $42,188 |
| Glenwood Township | 4% | B− | B− | 22 min | $87,448 |
| Minnewaska Township | under 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Reno Township | under 2% | — | — | 18 min | — |
| Long Beach | under 2% | — | — | 19 min | — |
| Leven Township | under 2% | — | — | 22 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Minnewaska Township, Reno Township, Long Beach and Leven Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Glenwood’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 Glenwood: questions
What is the median household income in Glenwood?
$42,188 (±$15,427) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Glenwood?
18.4%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Glenwood?
21 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Glenwood work?
37% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Alexandria (18%, 15 mi), Glenwood Township (4%, 4 mi), Starbuck (3%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Glenwood walkable?
Glenwood is more walkable than 91% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.4 out of 20, and 19% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Glenwood without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 17% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Glenwood, from the people who make the trip.
More of Glenwood
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.