Church of St. Mary Help of Christians-Catholic · Photo: McGhiever · CC BY-SA 4.0Household incomes in St. Augusta are higher than in 93% of U.S. towns
Home is the office for 8% of workers; Minnesota has 18%. The two grades for St. Augusta are A for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Household incomes here are higher than in 93% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: St. Augusta in brief
Stores, warehouses and trucking
62% of the jobs in St. Augusta are in trade, transport and utilities, against 26% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
St. Augusta and St. Cloud trade workers both ways
St. Cloud is the top workplace for St. Augusta residents (38%) and also where the most people who work in St. Augusta come from (24% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Short distances, slow trips
Half of St. Augusta’s working residents have a job less than 9 miles away, yet the average commute still takes 25 minutes, longer than the Minnesota average of 23. Time on the road ↓
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.
What’s behind St. Augusta’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, St. Augusta is better than 90% of U.S. towns, #76 of 273 in Minnesota. The poverty rate is its strongest input (hardly any, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 59% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, St. Augusta could be anywhere from B+ to A+.
What work there is in St. Augusta: 1,249 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in St. Augusta, 2013 → 2023: 1,096 → 1,249. 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 St. Augusta’s own residents hold wherever they work.
38% of working residents work in St. Cloud
Where St. Augusta clocks in
38% 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.
How long St. Augusta spends getting to work: about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of St. Augusta workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,856 commuters (the 8% 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.
St. Augusta quiets down on a workday
On a workday 1,627 residents head out to work, 68 work right here, and 1,181 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,400 people are in St. Augusta on a workday afternoon, 12% fewer than live here.
0.74 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.
Short hops and long hauls from St. Augusta
About 15% 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.
Getting around St. Augusta: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, St. Augusta is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns, #211 of 273 in Minnesota. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.7% across Minnesota, on an EPA index of 5.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,028 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). 0.3% of St. Augusta households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of St. Augusta’s commuters take a bus or train.
How St. Augusta ranks: 393rd of 4,153 U.S. towns of 2,700 to 5,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5 | Independence MN | 3,763 | $187K | 1.1% | 0.8% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 15 | Deephaven MN | 3,794 | $198K | 1.7% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Greenfield MN | 2,962 | $154K | 1.2% | 0.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 391 | Greenville DE | 3,713 | $143K | 4.0% | 4.2% | 3% | A |
| 392 | Scott AFB IL | 3,957 | $103K | 5.7% | 2.3% | 2% | A |
| 393 | St. Augusta MN | 3,799 | $140K | 0.0% | 3.6% | 4% | A |
| 394 | Piperton TN | 2,889 | $130K | 4.6% | 3.5% | 3% | A |
| 395 | Lowesville NC | 3,874 | $114K | 4.1% | 2.8% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,153 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 St. Augusta, the top three, the last and three more from Minnesota.
The towns next door employ 38% of St. Augusta
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | St. Augusta workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Augusta | – | A | C+ | 25 min | $140,227 |
| St. Cloud | 38% | C | A | 20 min | $61,374 |
| Maine Prairie Township | under 2% | B+ | C+ | 28 min | $100,313 |
| Rockville | under 2% | A | C− | 24 min | $105,329 |
| Fair Haven Township | under 2% | B | C− | 34 min | $89,034 |
| Lynden Township | under 2% | B+ | D− | 30 min | $112,083 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to St. Cloud. Darker towns draw more of St. Augusta’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 St. Augusta: questions
What is the median household income in St. Augusta?
$140,227 (±$39,778) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in St. Augusta?
0.0%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from St. Augusta?
25 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in St. Augusta work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are St. Cloud (38%, 5 mi), Waite Park (6%, 5 mi), Sartell (3%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is St. Augusta walkable?
St. Augusta is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around St. Augusta without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and <1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from St. Augusta, from the people who make the trip.
More of St. Augusta
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.