Exchange State Bank · Photo: McGhiever · CC BY-SA 3.0About half of Grand Meadow’s working residents commute to Rochester
9% of workers work from home, next to 18% for Minnesota as a whole. Jobs and income earn Grand Meadow B−; getting around on foot earns it B. Only 7% work in Grand Meadow itself; outside it, Rochester draws the most (47%, 22 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Grand Meadow, in brief
The figures behind Grand Meadow’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Grand Meadow is better than 52% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Grand Meadow’s grade up (4.3%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 24% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.7%) is left out: Grand Meadow’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, Grand Meadow could be anywhere from C+ to B.
The towns that employ Grand Meadow’s residents
Where Grand Meadow clocks in
47% 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.
Grand Meadow by day and by night
On a workday 551 residents head out to work, 39 work right here, and 284 people come in from elsewhere.
About 890 people are in Grand Meadow on a workday afternoon, 23% fewer than live here.
0.55 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 2024, primary jobs.
The kinds of work in Grand Meadow
323 jobs are based in Grand Meadow.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Grand Meadow, 2014 → 2024: 293 → 323. 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 Grand Meadow’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 23 minutes each way for Grand Meadow’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Grand Meadow workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 489 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 far it is to work from Grand Meadow
About 15% 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.
Few in Grand Meadow walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Grand Meadow is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.7% across Minnesota, on an EPA index of 6.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 539 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 0.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 47% 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 Grand Meadow households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Grand Meadow’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Grand Meadow is 1,348th among 4,312 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Medicine Lake MN | 1,342 | $184K | 2.7% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Dellwood MN | 1,148 | $225K | 4.1% | 0.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Louisville Township MN | 1,361 | $143K | 1.1% | 0.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,346 | Greenback TN | 1,251 | $73K | 9.9% | 4.1% | 1% | B− |
| 1,347 | Buckeye Township IL | 1,170 | $76K | 7.1% | 4.3% | 1% | B− |
| 1,348 | Grand Meadow MN | 1,159 | $72K | 4.3% | 0.7% | 7% | B− |
| 1,349 | Fairchilds TX | 1,060 | $69K | 13.9% | 6.7% | <1% | B− |
| 1,350 | Petersburgh NY | 1,369 | $78K | 5.0% | 3.6% | 10% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Grand Meadow, the top three, the last and three more from Minnesota.
Work in the towns next to Grand Meadow
The biggest share goes to Grand Meadow Township (6%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Grand Meadow workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Meadow | – | B− | B | 23 min | $72,125 |
| Grand Meadow Township | 6% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Frankford Township | 2% | — | — | 23 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Grand Meadow Township and Frankford Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Grand Meadow’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 Grand Meadow: questions
What is the median household income in Grand Meadow?
$72,125 (±$7,077) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Grand Meadow?
4.3%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Grand Meadow?
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 Grand Meadow work?
7% work in town.
Is Grand Meadow walkable?
Grand Meadow is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.5 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Grand Meadow 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 Grand Meadow, from the people who make the trip.
More of Grand Meadow
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.