Photo: Runner1928 · CC BY-SA 3.0Sherburn has 0.5 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Jobs & income D: better than 9% of U.S. towns on income, poverty and job access.
Walkability A−: more walkable than 78% of U.S. towns.
Household incomes here are lower than in 74% of U.S. towns. Working residents average 25 minutes each way (Minnesota 23, U.S. 26). About one in ten work in Sherburn; the top destination outside it is Fairmont (29%, 13 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Sherburn
What’s behind Sherburn’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Sherburn is better than 9% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Sherburn’s grade up ($59,777, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (22.7%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (9.1%) is left out: Sherburn’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, Sherburn could be anywhere from D− to C−.
29% of working residents work in Fairmont
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Sherburn clocks in
29% of workers
10% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Sherburn quiets down on a workday
On a workday 446 residents head out to work, 45 work right here, and 216 people come in from elsewhere.
About 810 people are in Sherburn on a workday afternoon, 22% fewer than live here.
0.53 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
What the 261 jobs in Sherburn are
261 jobs are based in Sherburn. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Sherburn’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sherburn, 2013 → 2023: 254 → 261. 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.
About 25 minutes each way, longer than most of Minnesota
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sherburn workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 372 commuters (the 11% who work from home are left out). Across Minnesota: 84% drive alone, 2% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
Half of Sherburn commutes less than 14 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 21% 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.
Sherburn is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Sherburn is more walkable than 78% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 7.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.7% across Minnesota, on an EPA index of 7.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 418 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). 3.5% of Sherburn households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of Sherburn’s commuters take a bus or train.
Sherburn is 2,614th of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Sherburn, the top three, the last and three more from Minnesota.
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,612 | Hansen ID | 1,109 | $50K | 29.8% | 1.1% | 3% | D |
| 2,613 | Dillsboro IN | 1,375 | $49K | 14.9% | 2.8% | 5% | D |
| 2,614 | Sherburn MN | 1,040 | $60K | 22.7% | 9.1% | 9% | D |
| 2,615 | Girardville PA | 1,325 | $42K | 20.8% | 5.1% | 1% | D |
| 2,616 | Siren WI | 1,026 | $63K | 20.6% | 2.6% | 3% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 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.
Sherburn and the towns next door
Darker towns draw more of Sherburn’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Sherburn workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sherburn | – | D | A− | 25 min | $59,777 |
| Manyaska Township | under 2% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Jay Township | under 2% | — | — | 18 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Manyaska Township and Jay Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
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 Sherburn: questions
What is the median household income in Sherburn?
$59,777 (±$7,698) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sherburn?
22.7%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sherburn?
25 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sherburn work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fairmont (29%, 13 mi), Jackson (10%, 13 mi), Blue Earth (3%, 31 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Sherburn walkable?
Sherburn is more walkable than 78% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sherburn without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sherburn, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sherburn
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.