Household incomes in Lewiston are higher than in 70% of U.S. towns
Home is the office for 10% of workers; Minnesota has 18%. The poverty rate is 5.2%, next to 9.3% for Minnesota as a whole. For jobs and income Lewiston is better than 57% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 53% of U.S. towns (B−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Lewiston
Lewiston and Winona trade workers both ways
Winona is the top workplace for Lewiston residents (28%) and also where the most people who work in Lewiston come from (14% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Lewiston makes and builds things
45% of the jobs based in Lewiston are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Lewiston residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 30%. The jobs ↓
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 750 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Lewiston earns its Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Lewiston’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 15% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (1.6%) is left out: Lewiston’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, Lewiston could be anywhere from C+ to B+.
28% of working residents work in Winona
Where Lewiston clocks in
28% of workers
18% 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.
45% of the jobs in Lewiston make or build things
734 jobs are based in Lewiston.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lewiston, 2013 → 2023: 782 → 734. 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 Lewiston’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily commute in and out of Lewiston
On a workday 631 residents head out to work, 119 work right here, and 615 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.98 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
About 22 minutes each way for Lewiston’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lewiston workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 862 commuters (the 10% 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.
How far Lewiston’s workers travel
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.
Most of Lewiston commutes by car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.7% across Minnesota, on an EPA index of 5.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 957 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 0.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 53% 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). 2.6% of Lewiston households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Lewiston’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Lewiston is 1,547th of 5,397 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Medicine Lake MN | 1,342 | $184K | 2.7% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Dellwood MN | 1,148 | $225K | 4.1% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Louisville Township MN | 1,361 | $143K | 1.1% | 0.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,545 | Remsen IA | 1,663 | $91K | 3.0% | 5.6% | 15% | B |
| 1,546 | Worthington Hills KY | 1,593 | $74K | 14.1% | 4.4% | <1% | B |
| 1,547 | Lewiston MN | 1,514 | $92K | 5.2% | 1.6% | 16% | B |
| 1,548 | Eagle Township KS | 1,251 | $72K | 9.1% | 5.0% | 3% | B |
| 1,549 | Newark Township MI | 1,113 | $75K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 3% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,397 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Lewiston, the top three, the last and three more from Minnesota.
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 Lewiston: questions
What is the median household income in Lewiston?
$91,875 (±$22,129) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lewiston?
5.2%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lewiston?
22 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lewiston work?
16% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Winona (28%, 11 mi), Rochester (18%, 30 mi), Goodview (3%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lewiston walkable?
Lewiston is more walkable than 53% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.5 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lewiston without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lewiston, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lewiston
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.