Chase Hotel · Photo: McGhiever · CC BY-SA 4.0Work and commuting in Shingobee Township
A typical one-way commute from Shingobee Township lasts 22 minutes (Minnesota 23, U.S. 26). Jobs and income earn Shingobee Township C; getting around on foot earns it B. About one in five work in Shingobee Township itself; outside it, Walker draws the most (22%, 1 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Shingobee Township stands out on work
Shingobee Township is where the jobs are
Shingobee Township has 915 jobs, 1.7 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Fewer than half of Shingobee Township workers earn over $40,000 a year
44% of Shingobee Township’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 18% earn $1,250 a month or less. The jobs ↓
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 529 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Shingobee Township: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Shingobee Township is better than 28% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Shingobee Township’s grade up ($75,000, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 9% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (7.0%) is left out: Shingobee Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Shingobee Township could be anywhere from D to B−.
How many people are in Shingobee Township by day
On a workday 438 residents head out to work, 91 work right here, and 824 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,100 people are in Shingobee Township on a workday afternoon, 22% more than live here.
1.7 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.
What the 915 jobs in Shingobee Township are
915 jobs are based in Shingobee Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Shingobee Township, 2013 → 2023: 940 → 915. 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 Shingobee Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where the people who work in Shingobee Township live
Where Shingobee Township clocks in
22% of workers
7% of workers
7% 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.
About 22 minutes to work from Shingobee Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Shingobee Township workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 539 commuters (the 13% 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 it is to work from Shingobee Township
About 25% 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 Shingobee Township commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Shingobee Township is more walkable than 60% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.7% across Minnesota, on an EPA index of 6.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 621 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). 1.7% of Shingobee Township households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Shingobee Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Shingobee Township is 3,564th of 5,760 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Medicine Lake MN | 1,342 | $184K | 2.7% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,562 | Coupeville WA | 1,920 | $82K | 12.8% | 1.9% | 13% | C |
| 3,563 | Sumpter Township IL | 1,978 | $71K | 11.8% | 0.7% | 14% | C |
| 3,564 | Shingobee Township MN | 1,725 | $75K | 10.6% | 7.0% | 17% | C |
| 3,565 | Black Brook NY | 1,417 | $68K | 7.5% | 4.5% | 1% | C |
| 3,566 | Port Edwards WI | 1,358 | $81K | 14.4% | 1.3% | 2% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | 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 Shingobee Township, the top three, the last and three more from Minnesota.
Around Shingobee Township: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Leech Lake Township (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Shingobee Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shingobee Township | – | C | B | 22 min | $75,000 |
| Turtle Lake Township | under 2% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Hiram Township | under 2% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Akeley Township | under 2% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Leech Lake Township | 4% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Steamboat River Township | under 2% | — | — | 25 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Turtle Lake Township, Hiram Township, Akeley Township, Leech Lake Township and Steamboat River Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Shingobee 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 Shingobee Township: questions
What is the median household income in Shingobee Township?
$75,000 (±$21,878) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Shingobee Township?
10.6%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Shingobee Township?
22 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Shingobee Township work?
17% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Walker (22%, 1 mi), Bemidji (7%, 32 mi), Cass Lake (7%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Shingobee Township walkable?
Shingobee Township is more walkable than 60% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Shingobee 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 Shingobee Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Shingobee 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.