Photo: Jet Lowe · Public domainKelliher draws 213 commuters a day, with 2.2 jobs for every working resident
About one in seven work in Kelliher itself; outside it, Blackduck draws the most (11%, 16 miles). There are 230 jobs in Kelliher for 106 working residents. Working from home is the commute for 9% of workers, next to 18% for Minnesota as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Kelliher for work, and who comes in
On a workday 89 residents head out to work and 17 work right here.
About 370 people are in Kelliher on a workday afternoon, 50% more 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.
Who travels to work in Kelliher, and from where
Where Kelliher clocks in
11% of workers
8% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Kelliher
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Kelliher, 2013 → 2023: 25 → 230. 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 Kelliher’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Kelliher, about 30 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kelliher workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 60 commuters (the 9% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Kelliher
About 35% 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.
Kelliher and its neighbors
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Kelliher workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kelliher | – | — | — | 30 min | $102,529 |
| Kelliher Township | under 2% | — | — | 28 min | — |
| Shooks Township | under 2% | — | — | 34 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Kelliher Township and Shooks Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Kelliher’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 Kelliher: questions
What is the median household income in Kelliher?
$102,529 (±$100,989) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kelliher?
24.5%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kelliher?
30 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Kelliher work?
16% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Blackduck (11%, 16 mi), Bemidji (8%, 38 mi), Red Lake (5%, 27 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Kelliher without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Kelliher, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kelliher
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.