Long Lake has higher household incomes than 83% of U.S. towns
Only 6% work in Long Lake itself; outside it, Minneapolis draws the most (14%, 15 miles). Below the poverty line: 5.5% of residents; Minnesota has 9.3%. The two grades for Long Lake are A+ for jobs and income and B for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Inside Long Lake’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Long Lake is better than 96% of U.S. towns. Job access by car is its strongest input (ahead of 94% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns. It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
Unemployment (1.5%) is left out: Long Lake’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, Long Lake could be anywhere from A− to A+.
Long Lake by day and by night
On a workday 839 residents head out to work, 53 work right here, and 1,129 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,200 people are in Long Lake on a workday afternoon, 15% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.33 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.
Commuting out of Long Lake: the destinations
Where Long Lake clocks in
14% of workers
5% 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.
Jobs in Long Lake: what the 1,182 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Long Lake, 2013 → 2023: 1,019 → 1,182. 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 Long Lake’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Long Lake takes about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Long Lake workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 718 commuters (the 22% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Long Lake
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.
Few in Long Lake walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Long Lake is more walkable than 55% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 5.7% across Minnesota.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 924 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 5% 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 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 41% 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). 4.4% of Long Lake households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Long Lake’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,600, Long Lake ranks 141st of 5,234 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | Tonka Bay MN | 1,561 | $156K | 3.5% | 9.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 48 | Stillwater Township MN | 1,831 | $162K | 3.4% | 3.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 74 | Baytown Township MN | 2,232 | $188K | 2.2% | 2.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 139 | Rockland WI | 1,833 | $128K | 2.8% | 0.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 140 | Lake Mills WI | 2,206 | $119K | 2.0% | 1.8% | 2% | A+ |
| 141 | Long Lake MN | 1,944 | $109K | 5.5% | 1.5% | 6% | A+ |
| 142 | Bellport NY | 2,220 | $146K | 5.8% | 2.0% | 7% | A+ |
| 143 | Laflin PA | 1,468 | $121K | 2.3% | 3.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,234 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Long Lake, 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 Long Lake: questions
What is the median household income in Long Lake?
$109,063 (±$17,993) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Long Lake?
5.5%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Long Lake?
25 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 22% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Long Lake work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Minneapolis (14%, 15 mi), Plymouth (9%, 6 mi), Orono (5%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Long Lake walkable?
Long Lake is more walkable than 55% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.8 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Long Lake without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Long Lake, from the people who make the trip.
More of Long Lake
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.