Photo: Bobak Ha'Eri · CC BY 3.0About one in three of Mapleton’s working residents commute to Mankato
Jobs & income C: better than 35% of U.S. towns on income, poverty and job access.
Walkability B+: more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns.
Household incomes here are higher than in 57% of U.S. towns. Working residents average 23 minutes each way (Minnesota 23, U.S. 26). About one in seven work in Mapleton; the top destination outside it is Mankato (30%, 17 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Mapleton, in brief
What’s behind Mapleton’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Mapleton is better than 35% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Mapleton’s grade up ($80,909, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 28% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (5.6%) is left out: Mapleton’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, Mapleton could be anywhere from C− to B−.
30% of working residents work in Mankato
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Mapleton clocks in
30% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Mapleton quiets down on a workday
On a workday 721 residents head out to work, 104 work right here, and 492 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Mapleton on a workday afternoon, 14% fewer than live here.
0.72 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 2023, primary jobs.
What the 596 jobs in Mapleton are
596 jobs are based in Mapleton. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Mapleton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mapleton, 2013 → 2023: 648 → 596. 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.
About 23 minutes each way, about the MN average
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mapleton workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 811 commuters (the 6% who work from home are left out). Across Minnesota: 84% drive alone, 2% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
Half of Mapleton commutes less than 17 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 19% 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.
Most trips from Mapleton start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mapleton is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Mapleton 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 867 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). 4.2% of Mapleton households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mapleton’s commuters take a bus or train.
Mapleton is 3,251st of 6,161 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Mapleton, the top three, the last and three more from Minnesota.
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Medicine Lake MN | 1,342 | $184K | 2.7% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 31 | Dellwood MN | 1,148 | $225K | 4.1% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Louisville Township MN | 1,361 | $143K | 1.1% | 0.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,249 | Delaware Township PA | 2,022 | $72K | 8.9% | 5.8% | 3% | C+ |
| 3,250 | Pinegrove Township PA | 1,348 | $77K | 8.7% | 1.7% | 2% | C+ |
| 3,251 | Mapleton MN | 1,622 | $81K | 13.4% | 5.6% | 13% | C |
| 3,252 | Lewisburg OH | 1,734 | $75K | 21.6% | 3.9% | 10% | C |
| 3,253 | White Haven PA | 1,203 | $68K | 17.1% | 5.7% | 6% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | 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.
Mapleton and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Mapleton Township (1%). Darker towns draw more of Mapleton’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Mapleton workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mapleton | – | C | B+ | 23 min | $80,909 |
| Mapleton Township | 1% | — | — | 23 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Mapleton Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
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 Mapleton: questions
What is the median household income in Mapleton?
$80,909 (±$12,351) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mapleton?
13.4%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mapleton?
23 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mapleton work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mankato (30%, 17 mi), North Mankato (6%, 18 mi), South Bend Township (2%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mapleton walkable?
Mapleton is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mapleton without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mapleton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mapleton
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.