Church of Sts. Joseph and Mary-Catholic · Photo: Jet Lowe · Public domainPerch Lake Township has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
There are 78 jobs in Perch Lake Township, and 406 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for Perch Lake Township are B− for jobs and income and C for walkability. 8% of workers work from home, where Minnesota as a whole has 18%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Perch Lake Township, in a few figures
Perch Lake Township and Cloquet trade workers both ways
Cloquet is the top workplace for Perch Lake Township residents (36%) and also where the most people who work in Perch Lake Township come from (26% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Perch Lake Township is a place people come home to
There are 78 jobs based in Perch Lake Township, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Perch Lake Township has about 710 people in it, 31% 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 406 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Perch Lake Township
On income, poverty and job access, Perch Lake Township is better than 46% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Perch Lake Township’s grade up ($90,000, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 34% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (6.8%) is left out: Perch Lake Township’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, Perch Lake Township could be anywhere from C to B.
36% of working residents work in Cloquet
Where Perch Lake Township clocks in
20% of workers
4% 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.
Perch Lake Township by day and by night
On a workday 403 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 75 people come in from elsewhere.
About 710 people are in Perch Lake Township on a workday afternoon, 31% 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.
The kinds of work in Perch Lake Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Perch Lake Township, 2013 → 2023: 70 → 78. 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 Perch Lake Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Perch Lake Township: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Perch Lake Township workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 427 commuters (the 8% 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 Perch Lake Township
About 23% 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.
Most of Perch Lake Township commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Perch Lake Township is more walkable than 27% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.7% across Minnesota, on an EPA index of 2.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 465 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). 2.0% of Perch Lake Township households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Perch Lake Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Perch Lake Township ranks: 1,151st of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,149 | Conway Township KS | 1,144 | $74K | 9.7% | 3.6% | 8% | B− |
| 1,150 | Candlewood Lake OH | 1,053 | $87K | 10.8% | 0.0% | 1% | B− |
| 1,151 | Perch Lake Township MN | 1,042 | $90K | 11.9% | 6.8% | 1% | B− |
| 1,152 | Middlesex NY | 1,349 | $76K | 5.8% | 2.2% | 5% | B− |
| 1,153 | Georgetown WI | 1,034 | $77K | 5.1% | 7.2% | 1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Perch Lake Township, the top three, the last and three more from Minnesota.
36% of Perch Lake Township works in a bordering town
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Perch Lake Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perch Lake Township | – | B− | C | 27 min | $90,000 |
| Cloquet | 36% | C+ | B+ | 17 min | $61,367 |
| Stoney Brook Township | under 1% | — | — | 38 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Stoney Brook Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Cloquet. Darker towns draw more of Perch Lake 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 Perch Lake Township: questions
What is the median household income in Perch Lake Township?
$90,000 (±$16,540) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Perch Lake Township?
11.9%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Perch Lake Township?
27 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Perch Lake Township work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cloquet (36%, 7 mi), Duluth (20%, 24 mi), Superior (4%, 27 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Perch Lake Township walkable?
Perch Lake Township is more walkable than 27% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 2.7 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Perch Lake Township without a car?
1% 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 Perch Lake Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Perch Lake 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.