Longyear, E. J., First Diamond Drill Site · Photo: McGhiever · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Hoyt Lakes commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
Hoyt Lakes has 194 jobs, against 826 working residents. For jobs and income Hoyt Lakes is better than 28% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns (D). Working residents average 29 minutes each way, next to 23 for Minnesota and 26 for the U.S.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Hoyt Lakes apart on work
Hoyt Lakes’ Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
The poverty rate holds Hoyt Lakes’ grade up (7.3%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 5% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (13.9%) is left out: Hoyt Lakes’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, Hoyt Lakes could be anywhere from D to B−.
From Hoyt Lakes, about 29 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hoyt Lakes workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 666 commuters (the 17% 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 daily commute in and out of Hoyt Lakes
On a workday 729 residents head out to work, 97 work right here, and 97 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Hoyt Lakes on a workday afternoon, 32% 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 2024, primary jobs.
17% of working residents work in White Township
Where Hoyt Lakes clocks in
15% 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.
Jobs in Hoyt Lakes: what the 194 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hoyt Lakes, 2014 → 2024: 257 → 194. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Hoyt Lakes’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Hoyt Lakes works
About 23% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
For most of Hoyt Lakes, work means a drive
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 802 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). 4.5% of Hoyt Lakes households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Hoyt Lakes’ commuters take a bus or train.
How Hoyt Lakes ranks: 3,508th of 5,509 U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Tonka Bay MN | 1,561 | $156K | 3.5% | 9.7% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 42 | May Township MN | 2,638 | $137K | 2.0% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 53 | Stillwater Township MN | 1,831 | $162K | 3.4% | 3.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,506 | Kimmel Township PA | 1,513 | $62K | 10.7% | 1.4% | 2% | C |
| 3,507 | Mount Pleasant Township PA | 1,463 | $84K | 12.6% | 5.2% | 4% | C |
| 3,508 | Hoyt Lakes MN | 1,978 | $66K | 7.3% | 13.9% | 12% | C |
| 3,509 | Glen Alpine NC | 1,552 | $70K | 11.0% | 6.7% | 1% | C |
| 3,510 | North Kingsville OH | 2,685 | $62K | 6.5% | 7.7% | 4% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,509 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 61% | 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 Hoyt Lakes, the top three, the last and three more from Minnesota.
Work next door: 17% of Hoyt Lakes’ workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Hoyt Lakes workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hoyt Lakes | – | C | D | 29 min | $65,764 |
| White Township | 17% | C | C | 30 min | $55,293 |
| Waasa Township | under 2% | — | — | 39 min | — |
| Babbitt | under 2% | D | B− | 33 min | $55,875 |
| Bassett Township | under 2% | — | — | 58 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Waasa Township and Bassett Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to White Township. Darker towns draw more of Hoyt Lakes’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 2024, 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 Hoyt Lakes: questions
What is the median household income in Hoyt Lakes?
$65,764 (±$11,486) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hoyt Lakes?
7.3%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hoyt Lakes?
29 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hoyt Lakes work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are White Township (17%, 8 mi), Virginia (15%, 19 mi), Mountain Iron (8%, 24 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Hoyt Lakes walkable?
Hoyt Lakes is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.6 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hoyt Lakes without a car?
<1% 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 Hoyt Lakes, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hoyt Lakes
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.