Photo: Deanlaw · CC BY-SA 3.0There are 2.1 jobs in Prinsburg for every working resident, and 470 people commute in
About one in seven work in Prinsburg itself; outside it, Willmar draws the most (34%, 14 miles). Prinsburg has 501 jobs, against 238 working residents. Home is the office for 2% of workers, next to 18% for Minnesota as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Prinsburg
Prinsburg is where the jobs are
Prinsburg has 501 jobs, 2.1 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 770 people are in town, 52% more than the 510 who live here. Day and night ↓
Prinsburg makes and builds things
69% of the jobs based in Prinsburg are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Prinsburg residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 29%. The jobs ↓
Prinsburg and Willmar trade workers both ways
Willmar is the top workplace for Prinsburg residents (34%) and also where the most people who work in Prinsburg come from (11% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
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 238 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The daily commute in and out of Prinsburg
On a workday 207 residents head out to work and 31 work right here.
About 770 people are in Prinsburg on a workday afternoon, 52% more than live here.
2.1 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
Making and building: 69% of jobs based in Prinsburg
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Prinsburg, 2013 → 2023: 350 → 501. 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 Prinsburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where the people who work in Prinsburg live
Where Prinsburg clocks in
34% 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.
Each way, about 23 minutes from Prinsburg
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Prinsburg workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 375 commuters (the 2% 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.
Where in the region Prinsburg works
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.
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 Prinsburg: questions
What is the median household income in Prinsburg?
$107,500 (±$17,881) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Prinsburg?
9.5%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Prinsburg?
23 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Prinsburg work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Willmar (34%, 14 mi), Holland Township (3%, 2 mi), Raymond (3%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Prinsburg without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Prinsburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Prinsburg
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.