Work means Alexandria for more than half of Ida Township’s working residents
Measured by household income, Ida Township is ahead of 79% of U.S. towns. Ida Township grades B+ for jobs and income and C for walkability. Hardly any stay in Ida Township for work; outside it, Alexandria is the main destination (52%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Ida Township, in a few figures
More than half of Ida Township works in Alexandria
329 working residents, 52%, have their main job in Alexandria, 8.2 miles away. That’s 52 times as many as work in Ida Township itself. The commute map ↓
Ida Township is a place people come home to
There are 107 jobs based in Ida Township, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Ida Township has about 910 people in it, 37% 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 632 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Ida Township gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Ida Township is better than 72% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Ida Township’s grade up (2.7%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 20% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (4.4%) is left out: Ida 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, Ida Township could be anywhere from B to A−.
The places Ida Township commutes to
Where Ida Township clocks in
52% of workers
3% 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 daily flow of workers through Ida Township
On a workday 627 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 102 people come in from elsewhere.
About 910 people are in Ida Township on a workday afternoon, 37% fewer than live here.
0.17 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.
A place that makes things: 42% of Ida Township’s jobs are in goods
107 jobs are based in Ida Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ida Township, 2013 → 2023: 36 → 107. 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 Ida Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 21 minutes from Ida Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ida Township workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 610 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.
Where in the region Ida Township works
About 22% 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.
Driving is how Ida Township gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Ida Township is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.7% across Minnesota, on an EPA index of 4.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 693 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). 2.6% of Ida Township households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Ida Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ida Township places 926th of 5,877 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | 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+ |
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| 33 | Dellwood MN | 1,148 | $225K | 4.1% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 35 | Louisville Township MN | 1,361 | $143K | 1.1% | 0.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 924 | Mountainaire AZ | 1,103 | $112K | 5.2% | 5.7% | <1% | B+ |
| 925 | Springfield Township IN | 1,192 | $96K | 3.7% | 8.2% | 1% | B+ |
| 926 | Ida Township MN | 1,432 | $103K | 2.7% | 4.4% | 1% | B+ |
| 927 | South Bend Township MN | 1,550 | $88K | 5.3% | 3.6% | 5% | B+ |
| 928 | Morgan WI | 1,032 | $93K | 5.9% | 0.2% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | 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 Ida Township, the top three, the last and three more from Minnesota.
The towns around Ida Township
The biggest share goes to La Grand Township (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Ida Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ida Township | – | B+ | C | 21 min | $103,250 |
| Garfield | under 2% | — | — | 19 min | — |
| Brandon Township | under 2% | — | — | 21 min | — |
| Carlos Township | 2% | A− | D | 21 min | $104,352 |
| La Grand Township | 4% | B | C | 21 min | $94,122 |
| Leaf Valley Township | under 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Garfield, Brandon Township and Leaf Valley Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Ida 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 Ida Township: questions
What is the median household income in Ida Township?
$103,250 (±$10,424) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ida Township?
2.7%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ida Township?
21 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ida Township work?
1% work in town.
Is Ida Township walkable?
Ida Township is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 4.0 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ida Township 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 Ida Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ida 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.