Photo: Lorie Shaull · CC BY 2.0Tamarack has 6.3 jobs for every working resident: 119 people commute in to work
For 0% of workers, the job is at home; Minnesota has 18%. There are 119 jobs in Tamarack, and 19 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any stay in Tamarack for work; outside it, Aitkin is the main destination (21%, 29 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Tamarack, and who commutes in
On a workday 19 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 160 people are in Tamarack on a workday afternoon, 169% more 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.
Where Tamarack’s workers come from
Where Tamarack clocks in
21% of workers
11% 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 Tamarack are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tamarack, 2013 → 2023: 27 → 119. 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 Tamarack’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 23 minutes to work from Tamarack
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tamarack workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 21 commuters (the 0% 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.
Half of Tamarack commutes less than 29 miles
About 32% 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 Tamarack: questions
What is the median household income in Tamarack?
$60,833 (±$30,616) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tamarack?
23.3%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tamarack?
23 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tamarack work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Aitkin (21%, 29 mi), McGregor (11%, 9 mi), Lamberton (5%, 197 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Tamarack without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Tamarack, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tamarack
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.