Most of Morristown commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
For 7% of workers, the job is at home, against 18% across Minnesota. Employers in Morristown report 139 jobs; 521 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Morristown C+; getting around on foot earns it C−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Morristown in brief
Morristown and Faribault trade workers both ways
Faribault is the top workplace for Morristown residents (28%) and also where the most people who work in Morristown come from (24% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Morristown is a place people come home to
There are 139 jobs based in Morristown, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Morristown has about 640 people in it, 37% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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 521 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Morristown’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Morristown is better than 42% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Morristown’s grade up ($83,059, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (15.1%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (5.1%) is left out: Morristown’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, Morristown could be anywhere from C to B.
28% of working residents work in Faribault
Where Morristown clocks in
28% 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.
Who commutes out of Morristown, and who commutes in
On a workday 513 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 131 people come in from elsewhere.
About 640 people are in Morristown on a workday afternoon, 37% 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.
A place that makes things: 35% of Morristown’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Morristown, 2013 → 2023: 129 → 139. 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 Morristown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 25 minutes from Morristown
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Morristown workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 602 commuters (the 7% 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 many miles Morristown commutes
About 18% 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.
Getting around Morristown: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Morristown is more walkable than 20% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 645 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). 0.6% of Morristown households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Morristown’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400, Morristown ranks 1,279th of 3,133 on jobs and income
| # | 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6 | Medicine Lake MN | 1,342 | $184K | 2.7% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 21 | Dellwood MN | 1,148 | $225K | 4.1% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | Louisville Township MN | 1,361 | $143K | 1.1% | 0.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,277 | Wilson WY | 1,113 | $142K | 14.6% | 2.9% | 3% | C+ |
| 1,278 | Saranac MI | 1,386 | $67K | 15.3% | 4.4% | 3% | C+ |
| 1,279 | Morristown MN | 1,023 | $83K | 15.1% | 5.1% | 2% | C+ |
| 1,280 | Logan Township OH | 1,162 | $75K | 11.0% | 0.0% | <1% | C+ |
| 1,281 | Banks Township PA | 1,165 | $64K | 10.3% | 13.8% | 4% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Morristown, 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 Morristown: questions
What is the median household income in Morristown?
$83,059 (±$6,890) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Morristown?
15.1%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Morristown?
25 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Morristown work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Faribault (28%, 10 mi), Northfield (8%, 21 mi), Owatonna (7%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Morristown walkable?
Morristown is more walkable than 20% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Morristown without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Morristown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Morristown
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.