Household incomes in Harmony are lower than in 61% of U.S. towns
8.2% of residents are in poverty, where Minnesota as a whole has 9.3%. Harmony grades C for jobs and income and A− for walkability. About one in five work in Harmony itself; outside it, Rochester draws the most (16%, 40 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Harmony apart
The figures behind Harmony’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Harmony is better than 30% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Harmony’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 11% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (2.8%) is left out: Harmony’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, Harmony could be anywhere from C− to B−.
Where in the region Harmony works
About 17% 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.
The daily flow of workers through Harmony
On a workday 324 residents head out to work, 79 work right here, and 521 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Harmony on a workday afternoon, 19% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.49 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.
The places Harmony commutes to
Where Harmony clocks in
16% of workers
9% 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.
What the 600 jobs in Harmony are
600 jobs are based in Harmony.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Harmony, 2013 → 2023: 561 → 600. 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 Harmony’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Harmony: about 22 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Harmony workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 427 commuters (the 12% 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.
Harmony is easy on foot, hard by bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Harmony is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Harmony near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 488 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). 4.2% of Harmony households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Harmony’s commuters take a bus or train.
Harmony places 1,706th of 3,133 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6 | Medicine Lake MN | 1,342 | $184K | 2.7% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 21 | Dellwood MN | 1,148 | $225K | 4.1% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | Louisville Township MN | 1,361 | $143K | 1.1% | 0.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,704 | Bronson FL | 1,292 | $62K | 8.5% | 4.4% | 10% | C |
| 1,705 | Webberville MI | 1,314 | $58K | 18.7% | 6.4% | 4% | C |
| 1,706 | Harmony MN | 1,028 | $68K | 8.2% | 2.8% | 20% | C |
| 1,707 | Velda City MO | 1,309 | $37K | 21.6% | 2.8% | <1% | C |
| 1,708 | Lakeview OH | 1,232 | $56K | 10.0% | 5.2% | 4% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 Harmony, 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 Harmony: questions
What is the median household income in Harmony?
$68,125 (±$9,733) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Harmony?
8.2%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Harmony?
22 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Harmony work?
20% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Rochester (16%, 40 mi), Preston (9%, 9 mi), Chatfield (4%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Harmony walkable?
Harmony is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.9 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Harmony without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Harmony, from the people who make the trip.
More of Harmony
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.