With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Ten Lake Township works elsewhere
Employers in Ten Lake Township report 19 jobs for 299 working residents. Ten Lake Township grades D for jobs and income and C− for walkability. At home: 10% of workers have no commute at all (Minnesota 18%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Ten Lake Township, in brief
Ten Lake Township is a place people come home to
There are 19 jobs based in Ten Lake Township, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Ten Lake Township has about 810 people in it, 26% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
29% of Ten Lake Township works in Bemidji
87 working residents, 29%, have their main job in Bemidji, 13 miles away. That’s 15 times as many as work in Ten Lake Township itself. The commute map ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 299 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Ten Lake Township
On income, poverty and job access, Ten Lake Township is better than 9% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Ten Lake Township’s grade up ($70,750, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 5% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (10.9%) is left out: Ten Lake Township’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, Ten Lake Township could be anywhere from D− to C.
Ten Lake Township by day and by night
On a workday 294 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 14 people come in from elsewhere.
About 810 people are in Ten Lake Township on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
29% of working residents work in Bemidji
Where Ten Lake Township clocks in
29% of workers
19% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Ten Lake Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ten Lake Township, 2013 → 2023: 12 → 19. 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 Ten Lake Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 23 minutes from Ten Lake Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ten Lake Township workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 258 commuters (the 10% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Ten Lake Township
About 18% 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.
Ten Lake Township is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Ten Lake Township is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.7% across Minnesota, on an EPA index of 2.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 287 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). 4.4% of Ten Lake Township households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Ten Lake Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
3,120th of 3,771: where Ten Lake Township ranks among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | 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+ |
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| 7 | Medicine Lake MN | 1,342 | $184K | 2.7% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
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| 24 | Dellwood MN | 1,148 | $225K | 4.1% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
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| 26 | Louisville Township MN | 1,361 | $143K | 1.1% | 0.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,118 | Kingston OK | 1,480 | $46K | 13.6% | 2.2% | 14% | D |
| 3,119 | Edinburg VA | 1,225 | $57K | 21.1% | 9.1% | 5% | D |
| 3,120 | Ten Lake Township MN | 1,092 | $71K | 24.1% | 10.9% | 2% | D |
| 3,121 | Williamstown NY | 1,356 | $62K | 16.7% | 4.6% | 3% | D |
| 3,122 | LeChee AZ | 1,307 | $62K | 15.1% | 3.3% | 0% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Ten Lake Township, the top three, the last and three more from Minnesota.
The towns next door employ 11% of Ten Lake Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Ten Lake Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ten Lake Township | – | D | C− | 23 min | $70,750 |
| Sugar Bush Township | under 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Frohn Township | under 2% | C+ | D− | 24 min | $90,156 |
| Pike Bay Township | 11% | C− | C+ | 21 min | $72,750 |
| Turtle River Township | under 2% | B | C− | 19 min | $94,000 |
Same-state neighbors only. Sugar Bush Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Pike Bay Township. Darker towns draw more of Ten Lake Township’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 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 Ten Lake Township: questions
What is the median household income in Ten Lake Township?
$70,750 (±$15,014) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ten Lake Township?
24.1%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ten Lake Township?
23 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ten Lake Township work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bemidji (29%, 13 mi), Cass Lake (19%, 5 mi), Pike Bay Township (11%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Ten Lake Township walkable?
Ten Lake Township is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 2.8 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ten Lake Township without a car?
2% 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 Ten Lake Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ten Lake Township
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.