Sayer House · Photo: McGhiever · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Harris works elsewhere
8% of workers work from home (Minnesota 18%). Harris has 114 jobs; 545 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Harris is better than 57% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 21% of U.S. towns (C−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Harris: the gist
Harris workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 42 minutes each way, against 23 across Minnesota. Over a year that’s about 322 hours of commuting, 146 more than the state’s typical worker. Every town next door averages less (31 to 36 minutes). Time on the road ↓
Harris is a place people come home to
There are 114 jobs based in Harris, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Harris has about 710 people in it, 38% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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 545 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Harris gets the Jobs & income grade it does
Household income holds Harris’ grade up ($87,375, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 42% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (2.5%) is left out: Harris’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, Harris could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
About 42 minutes each way for Harris’ commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Harris workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 379 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.
How many people are in Harris by day
On a workday 538 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 107 people come in from elsewhere.
About 710 people are in Harris on a workday afternoon, 38% 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.
11% of working residents work in North Branch
Where Harris clocks in
8% of workers
7% 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.
The kinds of work in Harris
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Harris, 2013 → 2023: 99 → 114. 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 Harris’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Harris goes to work
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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Most of Harris commutes by car
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 413 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). 0.0% of Harris households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Harris’ commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Harris is 1,011th among 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Medicine Lake MN | 1,342 | $184K | 2.7% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Dellwood MN | 1,148 | $225K | 4.1% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Louisville Township MN | 1,361 | $143K | 1.1% | 0.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,009 | Barker Ten Mile NC | 1,156 | $67K | 6.0% | 2.4% | 1% | B |
| 1,010 | Oak Grove Heights AR | 1,195 | $82K | 7.4% | 0.9% | <1% | B |
| 1,011 | Harris MN | 1,139 | $87K | 8.7% | 2.5% | 1% | B |
| 1,012 | Kingston Township MN | 1,279 | $85K | 6.6% | 7.6% | <1% | B |
| 1,013 | Pleasant Township OH | 1,132 | $98K | 8.0% | 5.0% | 1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Harris, the top three, the last and three more from Minnesota.
The towns next door employ 11% of Harris
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Harris workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harris | – | B | C− | 42 min | $87,375 |
| Sunrise Township | under 3% | B | C | 35 min | $110,938 |
| Fish Lake Township | under 3% | B | D | 36 min | $123,317 |
| North Branch | 11% | B+ | C | 31 min | $90,456 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to North Branch. Darker towns draw more of Harris’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 Harris: questions
What is the median household income in Harris?
$87,375 (±$15,203) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Harris?
8.7%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Harris?
42 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Harris work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are North Branch (11%, 6 mi), Rush City (8%, 7 mi), Cambridge (7%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Harris walkable?
Harris is more walkable than 21% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Harris without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Harris, from the people who make the trip.
More of Harris
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.