Greenwald has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
Hardly any work in Greenwald itself; outside it, Melrose draws the most (25%, 6 miles). Employers in Greenwald report 43 jobs, and 91 of its residents work somewhere. Home is the office for 1% of workers; Minnesota has 18%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Greenwald
On a workday 91 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 43 people come in from elsewhere.
About 160 people are in Greenwald on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
Where Greenwald goes to work
Where Greenwald clocks in
9% of workers
8% 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.
In Greenwald, 74% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Greenwald, 2013 → 2023: 105 → 43. 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 Greenwald’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 21 minutes from Greenwald
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Greenwald workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 141 commuters (the 1% 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 Greenwald
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.
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 Greenwald: questions
What is the median household income in Greenwald?
$72,625 (±$11,419) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Greenwald?
6.3%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Greenwald?
21 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Greenwald work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Melrose (25%, 6 mi), St. Cloud (9%, 34 mi), Sauk Centre (8%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Greenwald without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Greenwald, from the people who make the trip.
More of Greenwald
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.