Rushford City Mill · Photo: Jonathunder · CC BY-SA 3.0Jobs and earnings in Rushford, and the trip to work
Home is the office for 6% of workers, next to 18% for Minnesota as a whole. Rushford grades C+ for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. About one in four stay in Rushford for work; outside it, Winona is the main destination (17%, 17 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Rushford and work: the main findings
Where Rushford’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Rushford is better than 41% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Rushford’s grade up ($76,638, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 28% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (3.7%) is left out: Rushford’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, Rushford could be anywhere from C to B.
The kinds of work in Rushford
1,017 jobs are based in Rushford.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Rushford, 2013 → 2023: 873 → 1,017. 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 Rushford’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily flow of workers through Rushford
On a workday 697 residents head out to work, 210 work right here, and 807 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.12 per resident).
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 places Rushford commutes to
Where Rushford clocks in
17% of workers
14% of workers
3% 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.
A commute of about 24 minutes in Rushford
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Rushford workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 818 commuters (the 6% 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 far Rushford’s workers travel
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.
The commute in Rushford is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Rushford is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, the same share as across Minnesota, on an EPA index of 6.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 869 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 7.9% of Rushford households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Rushford’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Rushford ranks: 2,728th of 5,656 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Medicine Lake MN | 1,342 | $184K | 2.7% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Louisville Township MN | 1,361 | $143K | 1.1% | 0.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Tonka Bay MN | 1,561 | $156K | 3.5% | 9.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,726 | Bradley WI | 2,425 | $76K | 6.3% | 1.6% | 9% | C+ |
| 2,727 | Grand Canyon Village AZ | 1,599 | $73K | 13.2% | 1.5% | 18% | C+ |
| 2,728 | Rushford MN | 1,849 | $77K | 9.5% | 3.7% | 23% | C+ |
| 2,729 | Southwest Greensburg PA | 2,147 | $52K | 10.3% | 5.1% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,730 | Gallitzin PA | 1,465 | $56K | 7.4% | 4.0% | 2% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | 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 Rushford, 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 Rushford: questions
What is the median household income in Rushford?
$76,638 (±$7,012) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Rushford?
9.5%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Rushford?
24 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Rushford work?
23% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Winona (17%, 17 mi), Rochester (14%, 39 mi), La Crosse (3%, 26 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Rushford walkable?
Rushford is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.9 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Rushford without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Rushford, from the people who make the trip.
More of Rushford
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.