Pickwick Mill · Photo: McGhiever · CC BY-SA 4.0Winona draws more than half of Homer Township’s working residents
Home is the office for 8% of workers, where Minnesota as a whole has 18%. The two grades for Homer Township are B for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Household incomes here are higher than in 72% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Homer Township: the gist
More than half of Homer Township works in Winona
345 working residents, 55%, have their main job in Winona, 7.7 miles away across the town line. That’s far more as work in Homer Township itself. The commute map ↓
Homer Township is a place people come home to
There are 42 jobs based in Homer Township, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Homer Township has about 730 people in it, 44% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Short distances, slow trips
Half of Homer Township’s working residents have a job less than 8 miles away, yet the average commute still takes 26 minutes, longer than the Minnesota average of 23. 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 623 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The four measures behind Homer Township’s grade
On income, poverty and job access, Homer Township is better than 64% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Homer Township’s grade up (5.3%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 26% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (0.8%) is left out: Homer Township’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, Homer Township could be anywhere from B− to A−.
Where Homer Township goes to work
Where Homer Township clocks in
55% of workers
9% of workers
4% 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 and out of Homer Township on a workday
On a workday 621 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 40 people come in from elsewhere.
About 730 people are in Homer Township on a workday afternoon, 44% fewer than live here.
0.07 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Commuting from Homer Township: about 26 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Homer Township workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 551 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.
A place that makes things: 50% of Homer Township’s jobs are in goods
42 jobs are based in Homer Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Homer Township, 2013 → 2023: 58 → 42. 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 Homer Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Homer Township’s workers travel
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 commute in Homer Township is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Homer Township is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.7% across Minnesota, on an EPA index of 4.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 602 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). 0.4% of Homer Township households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Homer Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800, Homer Township ranks 1,200th of 5,400 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
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| 9 | Medicine Lake MN | 1,342 | $184K | 2.7% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Dellwood MN | 1,148 | $225K | 4.1% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Louisville Township MN | 1,361 | $143K | 1.1% | 0.9% | 1% | A+ |
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| 1,198 | Dover ID | 1,164 | $100K | 4.7% | 1.8% | 1% | B |
| 1,199 | Pinebluff NC | 1,571 | $81K | 6.1% | 7.1% | 1% | B |
| 1,200 | Homer Township MN | 1,310 | $94K | 5.3% | 0.8% | <1% | B |
| 1,201 | Medary Township SD | 1,579 | $108K | 6.7% | 2.2% | 1% | B |
| 1,202 | Shell Rock IA | 1,252 | $79K | 5.0% | 2.9% | 4% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Homer Township, the top three, the last and three more from Minnesota.
Work next door: 55% of Homer Township’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Homer Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Homer Township | – | B | C− | 26 min | $93,750 |
| Winona | 55% | C+ | A | 14 min | $56,337 |
| Wilson Township | under 1% | B+ | B− | 18 min | $98,600 |
| Pleasant Hill Township | under 1% | — | — | 37 min | — |
| Richmond Township | under 1% | — | — | 27 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Pleasant Hill Township and Richmond Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Winona. Darker towns draw more of Homer 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 Homer Township: questions
What is the median household income in Homer Township?
$93,750 (±$12,668) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Homer Township?
5.3%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Homer Township?
26 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Homer Township work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Winona (55%, 8 mi), La Crosse (9%, 19 mi), Rochester (4%, 46 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Homer Township walkable?
Homer Township is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.4 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Homer Township without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and <1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Homer Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Homer 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.