Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Taylors Falls commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
The two grades for Taylors Falls are B− for jobs and income and C for walkability. Employers in Taylors Falls report 161 jobs for 552 working residents. Only 1% stay in Taylors Falls for work; outside it, Minneapolis is the main destination (7%, 42 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Taylors Falls
Taylors Falls is a place people come home to
There are 161 jobs based in Taylors Falls, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Taylors Falls has about 660 people in it, 37% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Taylors Falls workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 33 minutes each way, against 23 across Minnesota. Over a year that’s about 253 hours of commuting, 77 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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; with 552 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Taylors Falls earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Taylors Falls is better than 54% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Taylors Falls’ grade up (5.4%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($67,885, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (2.2%) is left out: Taylors Falls’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, Taylors Falls could be anywhere from C+ to B+.
How many people are in Taylors Falls by day
On a workday 545 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 154 people come in from elsewhere.
About 660 people are in Taylors Falls on a workday afternoon, 37% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Commuting from Taylors Falls: about 33 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Taylors Falls workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 547 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.
The towns that employ Taylors Falls’ residents
Where Taylors Falls clocks in
7% of workers
6% of workers
5% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Taylors Falls
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Taylors Falls, 2014 → 2024: 197 → 161. 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 Taylors Falls’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Taylors Falls
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.
For most of Taylors Falls, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Taylors Falls is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.9% 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 622 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). 4.9% of Taylors Falls households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Taylors Falls’ commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Taylors Falls is 906th of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6 | Medicine Lake MN | 1,342 | $184K | 2.7% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 21 | Dellwood MN | 1,148 | $225K | 4.1% | 0.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | Louisville Township MN | 1,361 | $143K | 1.1% | 0.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 904 | Shieldsville Township MN | 1,101 | $101K | 10.4% | 1.1% | <1% | B− |
| 905 | Orford NH | 1,229 | $93K | 5.8% | 4.8% | 3% | B− |
| 906 | Taylors Falls MN | 1,054 | $68K | 5.4% | 2.2% | 1% | B− |
| 907 | Durand IL | 1,380 | $66K | 7.0% | 2.4% | 5% | B− |
| 908 | Tuscarawas OH | 1,011 | $88K | 11.1% | 1.3% | 2% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Taylors Falls, the top three, the last and three more from Minnesota.
Around Taylors Falls: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to St. Croix Falls (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Taylors Falls workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taylors Falls | – | B− | C | 33 min | $67,885 |
| Shafer Township | under 3% | — | — | 37 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Shafer Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Taylors Falls’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 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 Taylors Falls: questions
What is the median household income in Taylors Falls?
$67,885 (±$10,618) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Taylors Falls?
5.4%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Taylors Falls?
33 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Taylors Falls work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Minneapolis (7%, 42 mi), St. Paul (6%, 38 mi), Center City (5%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Taylors Falls walkable?
Taylors Falls is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Taylors Falls 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 Taylors Falls, from the people who make the trip.
More of Taylors Falls
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.