With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Hokah works elsewhere
Working from home is the commute for 10% of workers, where Minnesota as a whole has 18%. Employers in Hokah report 83 jobs, against 212 working residents. Only 2% work in Hokah; the top destination outside it is La Crosse (30%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Hokah
Many Hokah workers cross into Wisconsin
47% of Hokah workers work outside Minnesota, most of them in Wisconsin, the Census survey finds. The commute map ↓
30% of Hokah works in La Crosse
63 working residents, 30%, have their main job in La Crosse, WI, 7.7 miles away. That’s 15 times as many as work in Hokah itself. The commute map ↓
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 212 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Commuting out of Hokah: the destinations
Where Hokah clocks in
30% 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.
How a workday changes Hokah
On a workday 208 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 79 people come in from elsewhere.
About 410 people are in Hokah on a workday afternoon, 24% 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.
The kinds of work in Hokah
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hokah, 2013 → 2023: 94 → 83. 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 Hokah’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 23 minutes each way for Hokah’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hokah workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 337 commuters (the 10% 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.
The distance from Hokah to work
About 26% 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.
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 Hokah: questions
What is the median household income in Hokah?
$60,781 (±$17,553) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hokah?
8.8%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hokah?
23 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hokah work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are La Crosse (30%, 8 mi), La Crescent (8%, 5 mi), Caledonia (8%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Hokah without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hokah, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hokah
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.