Photo: Bobak Ha'Eri · CC BY 3.0For more than half of its working residents, Stewartville is a commute to Rochester
About one in seven stay in Stewartville for work; outside it, Rochester is the main destination (58%, 11 miles). For jobs and income Stewartville is better than 70% of U.S. towns (B+); for walkability it is more walkable than 79% of U.S. towns (A−). Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 0.6 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 0.6 in Rochester.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Stewartville, in brief
More than half of Stewartville works in Rochester
2,118 working residents, 58%, have their main job in Rochester, 11 miles away. That’s 4 times as many as work in Stewartville itself. The commute map ↓
Stewartville makes and builds things
42% of the jobs based in Stewartville are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Stewartville residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 16%. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Where Stewartville’s Jobs & income grade comes from
The poverty rate is its strongest input (4.8%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 50% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and unemployment and job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Stewartville could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Out of Stewartville to work: where people go
Where Stewartville clocks in
58% of workers
2% of workers
1% 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.
Stewartville works in goods: 42% of its jobs
2,047 jobs are based in Stewartville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Stewartville, 2014 → 2024: 1,682 → 2,047. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Stewartville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A workday in Stewartville: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 3,162 residents head out to work, 503 work right here, and 1,544 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,200 people are in Stewartville on a workday afternoon, 24% fewer than live here.
0.56 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 2024, primary jobs.
The daily trip from Stewartville: about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Stewartville workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,934 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 Stewartville’s workers travel
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Stewartville
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 5.7% across Minnesota.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,391 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.6 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 52% 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). 2.6% of Stewartville households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Stewartville’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Stewartville is 1,140th of 3,168 U.S. towns of 4,800 to 9,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Elko New Market MN | 5,300 | $152K | 1.1% | 0.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 21 | Albertville MN | 8,544 | $133K | 1.1% | 0.2% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 43 | Credit River MN | 5,644 | $143K | 2.1% | 1.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,138 | Butler Township OH | 6,667 | $69K | 5.0% | 1.2% | 28% | B+ |
| 1,139 | Surfside FL | 5,591 | $100K | 9.9% | 5.2% | 11% | B+ |
| 1,140 | Stewartville MN | 6,850 | $83K | 4.8% | 3.5% | 14% | B+ |
| 1,141 | Pleasant Hill MO | 8,956 | $96K | 6.0% | 5.2% | 11% | B+ |
| 1,142 | Atlas Township MI | 8,271 | $107K | 4.1% | 6.8% | 6% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,168 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 6% | 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 Stewartville, 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 2024, 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 Stewartville: questions
What is the median household income in Stewartville?
$82,632 (±$25,596) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Stewartville?
4.8%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Stewartville?
19 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Stewartville work?
14% work in town.
Is Stewartville walkable?
Stewartville is more walkable than 79% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 11.0 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Stewartville without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Stewartville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Stewartville
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.