Lac qui Parle State Park WPA/Rustic Style Historic District · Photo: McGhiever · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Lac qui Parle Township works elsewhere
Home is the office for 30% of workers, where Minnesota as a whole has 18%. 9 jobs are based in Lac qui Parle Township, against 74 working residents. Hardly any stay in Lac qui Parle Township for work; outside it, Dawson is the main destination (23%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Lac qui Parle Township, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 74 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 9 people come in from elsewhere.
About 130 people are in Lac qui Parle Township on a workday afternoon, 34% 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.
Commuting out of Lac qui Parle Township: the destinations
Where Lac qui Parle Township clocks in
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.
Services make up most of the work in Lac qui Parle Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lac qui Parle Township, 2014 → 2024: 6 → 9. 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 Lac qui Parle Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 22 minutes each way for Lac qui Parle Township’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lac qui Parle Township workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 51 commuters (the 30% 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.
Lac qui Parle Township’s commute, mile by mile
About 18% 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.
Around Lac qui Parle Township: the bordering towns
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Lac qui Parle Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lac qui Parle Township | – | — | — | 22 min | $107,083 |
| Kragero Township | under 3% | — | — | 14 min | — |
| Hantho Township | under 3% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Baxter Township | under 3% | — | — | 16 min | — |
| Cerro Gordo Township | under 3% | — | — | 16 min | — |
| Camp Release Township | under 3% | — | — | 19 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Kragero Township, Hantho Township, Baxter Township, Cerro Gordo Township and Camp Release Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Lac qui Parle 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 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 Lac qui Parle Township: questions
What is the median household income in Lac qui Parle Township?
$107,083 (±$28,016) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lac qui Parle Township?
4.6%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lac qui Parle Township?
22 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 30% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lac qui Parle Township work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dawson (23%, 8 mi), Montevideo (18%, 11 mi), Marshall (8%, 40 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Lac qui Parle 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 Lac qui Parle Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lac qui Parle Township
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.