Spring Grove’s household incomes are lower than in 75% of U.S. towns
About one in five work in Spring Grove; the top destination outside it is Caledonia (18%, 8 miles). Poverty touches 4.0% of residents, where Minnesota as a whole has 9.3%. Jobs and income earn Spring Grove C+; getting around on foot earns it B.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Spring Grove and work: the main findings
Spring Grove and Caledonia trade workers both ways
Caledonia is the top workplace for Spring Grove residents (18%) and also where the most people who work in Spring Grove come from (10% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Spring Grove workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 35 minutes each way, against 23 across Minnesota. Over a year that’s about 268 hours of commuting, 92 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
A lot of Spring Grove workers cross into Wisconsin
25% of Spring Grove workers work outside Minnesota, the Census survey finds. In the commute data, La Crosse (15%), Decorah (3%) and Onalaska (2%) are among the top workplaces. 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 514 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Spring Grove gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Spring Grove is better than 40% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Spring Grove’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 16% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (7.2%) is left out: Spring Grove’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, Spring Grove could be anywhere from C− to B.
The places Spring Grove commutes to
Where Spring Grove clocks in
15% of workers
4% 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.
Time on the road from Spring Grove: about 35 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Spring Grove workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 435 commuters (the 12% 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.
Who commutes out of Spring Grove, and who commutes in
On a workday 420 residents head out to work, 94 work right here, and 476 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 (1.11 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.
What Spring Grove’s employers do
570 jobs are based in Spring Grove.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Spring Grove, 2013 → 2023: 551 → 570. 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 Spring Grove’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Spring Grove
About 22% 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.
Spring Grove is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Spring Grove is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.7% across Minnesota, on an EPA index of 6.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 495 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). 14.5% of Spring Grove households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Spring Grove’s commuters take a bus or train.
Spring Grove is 1,918th of 4,312 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Medicine Lake MN | 1,342 | $184K | 2.7% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Dellwood MN | 1,148 | $225K | 4.1% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Louisville Township MN | 1,361 | $143K | 1.1% | 0.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,916 | Lookout Mountain AL | 1,120 | $80K | 12.8% | 0.0% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,917 | Monona IA | 1,444 | $74K | 7.3% | 0.9% | 13% | C+ |
| 1,918 | Spring Grove MN | 1,206 | $60K | 4.0% | 7.2% | 18% | C+ |
| 1,919 | Mantua OH | 1,005 | $50K | 11.8% | 5.4% | 6% | C+ |
| 1,920 | Woodbury Township PA | 1,414 | $77K | 9.7% | 1.5% | 5% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Spring Grove, the top three, the last and three more from Minnesota.
Next door to Spring Grove
The biggest share goes to Spring Grove Township (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Spring Grove workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Grove | – | C+ | B | 35 min | $59,625 |
| Spring Grove Township | 2% | — | — | 44 min | — |
| Wilmington Township | under 3% | — | — | 24 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Spring Grove Township and Wilmington Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Spring Grove’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 Spring Grove: questions
What is the median household income in Spring Grove?
$59,625 (±$15,669) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Spring Grove?
4.0%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Spring Grove?
35 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Spring Grove work?
18% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Caledonia (18%, 8 mi), La Crosse (15%, 28 mi), Rochester (4%, 52 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Spring Grove walkable?
Spring Grove is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.5 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Spring Grove without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Spring Grove, from the people who make the trip.
More of Spring Grove
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.