Work means Alexandria for more than half of Lake Mary Township’s working residents
Household incomes here are higher than in 79% of U.S. towns. Lake Mary Township grades B+ for jobs and income and D for walkability. Only 2% stay in Lake Mary Township for work; outside it, Alexandria is the main destination (51%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Lake Mary Township stands out on work
Lake Mary Township’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Lake Mary Township is better than 69% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Lake Mary Township’s grade up (3.7%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 19% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Lake Mary 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, Lake Mary Township could be anywhere from B− to A−.
The places Lake Mary Township commutes to
Where Lake Mary Township clocks in
51% 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.
A workday in Lake Mary Township: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 523 residents head out to work, 12 work right here, and 185 people come in from elsewhere.
About 850 people are in Lake Mary Township on a workday afternoon, 29% fewer than live here.
0.37 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 2024, primary jobs.
84% of the jobs in Lake Mary Township pay over $3,333 a month
197 jobs are based in Lake Mary Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lake Mary Township, 2014 → 2024: 88 → 197. 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 Lake Mary Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Lake Mary Township: about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lake Mary Township workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 460 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.
Half of Lake Mary Township commutes less than 8 miles
About 21% 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.
In Lake Mary Township, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lake Mary Township is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Lake Mary Township near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 524 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). 0.0% of Lake Mary Township households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lake Mary Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Lake Mary Township ranks: 764th of 4,312 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Medicine Lake MN | 1,342 | $184K | 2.7% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Dellwood MN | 1,148 | $225K | 4.1% | 0.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Louisville Township MN | 1,361 | $143K | 1.1% | 0.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 762 | Palm Shores FL | 1,209 | $78K | 6.2% | 1.7% | <1% | B+ |
| 763 | East Berlin PA | 1,582 | $74K | 6.5% | 8.2% | 4% | B+ |
| 764 | Lake Mary Township MN | 1,185 | $103K | 3.7% | 0.0% | 2% | B+ |
| 765 | Washington Township OH | 1,268 | $105K | 6.7% | 0.0% | 0% | B+ |
| 766 | Juniata Township PA | 1,562 | $92K | 2.0% | 1.3% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Lake Mary Township, the top three, the last and three more from Minnesota.
Work next door: 54% of Lake Mary Township’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Lake Mary Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Mary Township | – | B+ | D | 19 min | $102,969 |
| Alexandria | 51% | C+ | A− | 18 min | $61,374 |
| La Grand Township | 2% | B | C | 21 min | $94,122 |
| Holmes City Township | under 1% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Reno Township | under 1% | — | — | 18 min | — |
| Hudson Township | 1% | — | — | 24 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Holmes City Township and Reno Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Hudson Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Alexandria. Darker towns draw more of Lake Mary 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 Lake Mary Township: questions
What is the median household income in Lake Mary Township?
$102,969 (±$23,016) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lake Mary Township?
3.7%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lake Mary Township?
19 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lake Mary Township work?
2% work in town.
Is Lake Mary Township walkable?
Lake Mary Township is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lake Mary Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lake Mary Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lake Mary 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. 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.