Church of the Holy Trinity-Catholic · Photo: Jonathunder · CC BY-SA 3.0Rollingstone has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Working from home is the commute for 8% of workers; Minnesota has 18%. Rollingstone has 76 jobs; 309 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Rollingstone itself; outside it, Winona draws the most (31%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Rollingstone apart
Rollingstone and Winona trade workers both ways
Winona is the top workplace for Rollingstone residents (31%) and also where the most people who work in Rollingstone come from (21% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Rollingstone is a place people come home to
There are 76 jobs based in Rollingstone, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Rollingstone has about 470 people in it, 33% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Rollingstone workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 29 minutes each way, against 23 across Minnesota. Over a year that’s about 222 hours of commuting, 46 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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 309 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Rollingstone goes to work
Where Rollingstone clocks in
31% of workers
20% 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 Rollingstone, and who commutes in
On a workday 308 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 75 people come in from elsewhere.
About 470 people are in Rollingstone on a workday afternoon, 33% 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 from Rollingstone: about 29 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Rollingstone workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 305 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.
What Rollingstone’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Rollingstone, 2013 → 2023: 78 → 76. 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 Rollingstone’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Rollingstone
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 Rollingstone: questions
What is the median household income in Rollingstone?
$93,000 (±$7,226) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Rollingstone?
6.7%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Rollingstone?
29 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Rollingstone work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Winona (31%, 8 mi), Rochester (20%, 33 mi), Goodview (6%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Rollingstone without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Rollingstone, from the people who make the trip.
More of Rollingstone
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.