Photo: User:afiler / Flickr: afiler from Seattle (ex-Minneapolis) · CC BY-SA 2.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Strandquist works elsewhere
4% of workers work from home, against 18% across Minnesota. 3 jobs are based in Strandquist, and 44 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Strandquist itself; outside it, Thief River Falls draws the most (39%, 29 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Strandquist for work, and who comes in
On a workday 44 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 3 people come in from elsewhere.
About 27 people are in Strandquist on a workday afternoon, 60% 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.
The places Strandquist commutes to
Where Strandquist clocks in
7% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Strandquist
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Strandquist’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 24 minutes from Strandquist
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Strandquist workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 46 commuters (the 4% 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 Strandquist, 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 Strandquist: questions
What is the median household income in Strandquist?
$56,458 (±$32,203) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Strandquist?
9.9%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Strandquist?
24 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Strandquist work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Thief River Falls (39%, 29 mi), Warren (7%, 25 mi), Grand Forks (7%, 49 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Strandquist without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Strandquist, from the people who make the trip.
More of Strandquist
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.