Photo: McGhiever · CC BY-SA 4.0Jobs and the daily commute in Starbuck
12% of workers have no commute at all, where Minnesota as a whole has 18%. For jobs and income Starbuck is better than 31% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (B−). About one in ten work in Starbuck; the top destination outside it is Glenwood (20%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Starbuck, in brief
The four measures behind Starbuck’s grade
The poverty rate holds Starbuck’s grade up (10.3%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 17% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (2.8%) is left out: Starbuck’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, Starbuck could be anywhere from C− to B−.
What work there is in Starbuck: 416 jobs
416 jobs are based in Starbuck.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Starbuck, 2013 → 2023: 464 → 416. 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 Starbuck’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who commutes out of Starbuck, and who commutes in
On a workday 542 residents head out to work, 60 work right here, and 356 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Starbuck on a workday afternoon, 13% fewer than live here.
0.69 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.
Where the trip to work from Starbuck ends
Where Starbuck clocks in
20% of workers
18% 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.
Each way, about 23 minutes from Starbuck
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Starbuck workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 612 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.
How far Starbuck goes to work
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.
Few in Starbuck walk, bike or ride to work
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 692 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). 5.3% of Starbuck households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Starbuck’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Starbuck is 3,257th among 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Medicine Lake MN | 1,342 | $184K | 2.7% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Dellwood MN | 1,148 | $225K | 4.1% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 35 | Louisville Township MN | 1,361 | $143K | 1.1% | 0.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,255 | Parkwood CA | 1,758 | $62K | 20.8% | 15.8% | 1% | C |
| 3,256 | La Cygne KS | 1,013 | $59K | 7.3% | 6.5% | 11% | C |
| 3,257 | Starbuck MN | 1,406 | $73K | 10.3% | 2.8% | 10% | C |
| 3,258 | Pender NE | 1,106 | $73K | 9.4% | 3.9% | 27% | C |
| 3,259 | Caddo OK | 1,093 | $52K | 6.5% | 1.9% | 5% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | 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 Starbuck, the top three, the last and three more from Minnesota.
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 Starbuck: questions
What is the median household income in Starbuck?
$72,583 (±$13,782) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Starbuck?
10.3%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Starbuck?
23 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Starbuck work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Glenwood (20%, 8 mi), Alexandria (18%, 20 mi), Morris (4%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Starbuck walkable?
Starbuck is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.6 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Starbuck without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Starbuck, from the people who make the trip.
More of Starbuck
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.