With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Milo Township works elsewhere
Jobs and income earn Milo Township B−; getting around on foot earns it C+. 224 jobs are based in Milo Township, against 659 working residents. Only 2% work in Milo Township; the top destination outside it is Milaca (12%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Milo Township: the gist
How Milo Township earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Milo Township is better than 52% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Milo Township’s grade up ($84,000, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 34% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (0.2%) is left out: Milo Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Milo Township could be anywhere from C to A−.
The daily trip from Milo Township: about 35 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Milo Township workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 543 commuters (the 14% 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.
Who leaves Milo Township for work, and who comes in
On a workday 646 residents head out to work, 13 work right here, and 211 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Milo Township on a workday afternoon, 28% 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 2023, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Milo Township: the destinations
Where Milo Township clocks in
12% of workers
9% of workers
7% 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.
What Milo Township’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Milo Township, 2013 → 2023: 135 → 224. 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 Milo Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Milo Township goes to work
About 20% 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.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Milo Township, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Milo Township is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.7% across Minnesota, on an EPA index of 5.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 632 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). 2.1% of Milo Township households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Milo Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Milo Township ranks: 1,974th of 5,794 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100
| # | 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+ |
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| 8 | Medicine Lake MN | 1,342 | $184K | 2.7% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Dellwood MN | 1,148 | $225K | 4.1% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Louisville Township MN | 1,361 | $143K | 1.1% | 0.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,972 | Glen Dale WV | 1,404 | $82K | 10.6% | 2.5% | 6% | B− |
| 1,973 | Bay Township MI | 1,139 | $81K | 4.4% | 3.6% | 2% | B− |
| 1,974 | Milo Township MN | 1,579 | $84K | 8.2% | 0.2% | 2% | B− |
| 1,975 | Ogden KS | 1,655 | $68K | 5.9% | 6.0% | 1% | B− |
| 1,976 | Penn Township MI | 1,768 | $84K | 9.3% | 8.2% | 5% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | 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 Milo Township, the top three, the last and three more from Minnesota.
Next door to Milo Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Milo Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milo Township | – | B− | C+ | 35 min | $84,000 |
| Greenbush Township | under 2% | B+ | C | 34 min | $105,500 |
| Foreston | 2% | — | — | 33 min | — |
| Bogus Brook Township | under 2% | A− | C | 37 min | $123,846 |
| Milaca Township | under 2% | A− | C | 31 min | $99,583 |
| Maywood Township | under 2% | — | — | 35 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Foreston: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Maywood Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Foreston. Darker towns draw more of Milo 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 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 Milo Township: questions
What is the median household income in Milo Township?
$84,000 (±$16,691) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Milo Township?
8.2%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Milo Township?
35 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Milo Township work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Milaca (12%, 6 mi), Princeton (9%, 10 mi), St. Cloud (7%, 25 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Milo Township walkable?
Milo Township is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.6 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Milo Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Milo Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Milo Township
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.