Oliver Boarding House · Photo: Jonathunder · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Greenway Township commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
There are 325 jobs in Greenway Township for 666 working residents. Greenway Township grades C− for jobs and income and D for walkability. Home is the office for 8% of workers; Minnesota has 18%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Greenway Township, in a few figures
Greenway Township and Grand Rapids trade workers both ways
Grand Rapids is the top workplace for Greenway Township residents (31%) and also where the most people who work in Greenway Township come from (16% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Greenway Township workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 30 minutes each way, against 23 across Minnesota. Over a year that’s about 230 hours of commuting, 54 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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 666 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Greenway Township
The poverty rate holds Greenway Township’s grade up (12.6%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 10% of U.S. towns).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Greenway Township could be anywhere from D to B−.
31% of working residents work in Grand Rapids
Where Greenway Township clocks in
31% of workers
12% 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.
Greenway Township’s commute takes about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Greenway Township workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 870 commuters (the 8% 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.
Greenway Township on a workday afternoon
On a workday 631 residents head out to work, 35 work right here, and 290 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Greenway Township on a workday afternoon, 19% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Greenway Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Greenway Township, 2013 → 2023: 312 → 325. 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 Greenway Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Greenway Township
About 29% 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 Greenway Township, most people drive to work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 0.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.7% across Minnesota, on an EPA index of 3.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 946 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). 6.4% of Greenway Township households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Greenway Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Greenway Township is 3,915th of 5,343 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,400 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Louisville Township MN | 1,361 | $143K | 1.1% | 0.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | Tonka Bay MN | 1,561 | $156K | 3.5% | 9.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,913 | Ralls TX | 1,556 | $58K | 15.7% | 12.1% | 12% | C− |
| 3,914 | Ontonagon Township MI | 2,277 | $59K | 8.7% | 4.4% | 37% | C− |
| 3,915 | Greenway Township MN | 1,794 | $66K | 12.6% | 5.9% | 5% | C− |
| 3,916 | Liberty Township OH | 1,788 | $65K | 13.1% | 7.7% | 1% | C− |
| 3,917 | Decatur Township OH | 1,307 | $73K | 14.1% | 19.4% | <1% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,343 | 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 Greenway Township, the top three, the last and three more from Minnesota.
Around Greenway Township: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Nashwauk Township (6%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Greenway Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greenway Township | – | C− | D | 30 min | $66,094 |
| Lone Pine Township | under 2% | — | — | 35 min | — |
| Nashwauk Township | 6% | C− | B | 26 min | $60,192 |
| Taconite | under 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Nashwauk | under 2% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Marble | under 2% | — | — | 22 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Lone Pine Township, Taconite, Nashwauk and Marble: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Greenway Township’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 Greenway Township: questions
What is the median household income in Greenway Township?
$66,094 (±$8,806) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Greenway Township?
12.6%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Greenway Township?
30 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Greenway Township work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Grand Rapids (31%, 14 mi), Hibbing (12%, 15 mi), Nashwauk Township (6%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Greenway Township walkable?
Greenway Township is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Greenway Township without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Greenway Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Greenway Township
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.