Households in Goodhue earn more than those in 67% of U.S. towns
The poverty rate is 16.9% (Minnesota 9.3%). For jobs and income Goodhue is better than 36% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (B−). 9% of workers work from home, against 18% across Minnesota.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Goodhue
Stores, warehouses and trucking
66% of the jobs in Goodhue are in trade, transport and utilities, against 18% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Most jobs in Goodhue pay over $40,000 a year
78% of the jobs based in Goodhue pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), the top earnings band in the Census data. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 609 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Goodhue’s Jobs & income grade
Household income holds Goodhue’s grade up ($89,398, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down.
Unemployment (3.7%) is left out: Goodhue’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Goodhue could be anywhere from C− to A−.
78% of the jobs in Goodhue pay over $3,333 a month
522 jobs are based in Goodhue.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Goodhue, 2013 → 2023: 175 → 522. 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 Goodhue’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 572 residents head out to work, 37 work right here, and 485 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.86 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
21% of working residents work in Red Wing
Where Goodhue clocks in
10% 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.
About 20 minutes to work from Goodhue
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Goodhue workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 479 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.
The commute from Goodhue, by distance
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.
Most of Goodhue commutes by car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.7% across Minnesota, on an EPA index of 4.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 527 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). 2.8% of Goodhue households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Goodhue’s commuters take a bus or train.
2,376th of 4,866: where Goodhue ranks among U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Medicine Lake MN | 1,342 | $184K | 2.7% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Dellwood MN | 1,148 | $225K | 4.1% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 31 | Louisville Township MN | 1,361 | $143K | 1.1% | 0.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,374 | Pioneer CA | 1,155 | $76K | 6.5% | 5.1% | <1% | C+ |
| 2,375 | Laingsburg MI | 1,402 | $77K | 24.0% | 4.4% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,376 | Goodhue MN | 1,247 | $89K | 16.9% | 3.7% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,377 | Atkinson NE | 1,316 | $79K | 7.8% | 1.5% | 42% | C+ |
| 2,378 | Saxonburg PA | 1,368 | $45K | 10.4% | 2.8% | 3% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Goodhue, 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 Goodhue: questions
What is the median household income in Goodhue?
$89,398 (±$3,865) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Goodhue?
16.9%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Goodhue?
20 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Goodhue work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Red Wing (21%, 13 mi), Rochester (10%, 28 mi), Goodhue Township (7%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Goodhue walkable?
Goodhue is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Goodhue 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 Goodhue, from the people who make the trip.
More of Goodhue
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.