Photo: Myotus · CC BY 4.0With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Squaw Lake works elsewhere
For 28% of workers, the job is at home (Minnesota 18%). There are 12 jobs in Squaw Lake, against 47 working residents. Hardly any work in Squaw Lake itself; outside it, Cass Lake draws the most (21%, 27 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Squaw Lake for work, and who comes in
On a workday 47 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 12 people come in from elsewhere.
About 67 people are in Squaw Lake on a workday afternoon, 34% 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 out of Squaw Lake: the destinations
Where Squaw Lake clocks in
21% of workers
19% 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.
Most jobs in Squaw Lake are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Squaw Lake, 2013 → 2023: 8 → 12. 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 Squaw Lake’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 35 minutes from Squaw Lake
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Squaw Lake workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 21 commuters (the 28% 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.
The commute from Squaw Lake, by distance
About 23% 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.
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 Squaw Lake: questions
What is the median household income in Squaw Lake?
$60,000 (±$20,880) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Squaw Lake?
26.9%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Squaw Lake?
35 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 28% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Squaw Lake work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cass Lake (21%, 27 mi), Deer River (19%, 25 mi), Morse Township (9%, 23 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Squaw Lake without a car?
0% 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 Squaw Lake, from the people who make the trip.
More of Squaw Lake
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.