Truman’s household incomes are lower than in 72% of U.S. towns
Truman grades C− for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. The poverty rate is 10.9%, next to 9.3% for Minnesota as a whole. Working from home is the commute for 9% of workers, against 18% across Minnesota.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Truman in brief
Truman and Fairmont trade workers both ways
Fairmont is the top workplace for Truman residents (19%) and also where the most people who work in Truman come from (10% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
51% of the jobs in Truman are in trade, transport and utilities, against 26% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Truman are quick
The average trip to work takes 18 minutes, against 23 across Minnesota. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Minnesota worker. Time on the road ↓
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 512 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Truman’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Truman is better than 23% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Truman’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 21% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (1.4%) is left out: Truman’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Truman could be anywhere from D to B−.
19% of working residents work in Fairmont
Where Truman clocks in
19% of workers
4% 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.
Jobs in Truman: what the 442 are
442 jobs are based in Truman.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Truman, 2013 → 2023: 426 → 442. 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 Truman’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 18 minutes from Truman
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Truman workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 564 commuters (the 9% 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.
Who works in Truman, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 453 residents head out to work, 59 work right here, and 383 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.86 per resident).
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 commute from Truman, by distance
About 20% 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.
For most of Truman, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Truman is more walkable than 67% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.6% 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 618 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). 6.8% of Truman households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Truman’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400, Truman comes 2,000th on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6 | Medicine Lake MN | 1,342 | $184K | 2.7% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 21 | Dellwood MN | 1,148 | $225K | 4.1% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | Louisville Township MN | 1,361 | $143K | 1.1% | 0.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,998 | Elroy WI | 1,255 | $58K | 10.1% | 0.7% | 10% | C− |
| 1,999 | Washington WI | 1,028 | $81K | 17.0% | 1.1% | <1% | C− |
| 2,000 | Truman MN | 1,059 | $61K | 10.9% | 1.4% | 12% | C− |
| 2,001 | Jackson Township OH | 1,062 | $64K | 9.0% | 2.3% | 1% | C− |
| 2,002 | Fairlee VT | 1,048 | $75K | 14.7% | 0.7% | 14% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 Truman, 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 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 Truman: questions
What is the median household income in Truman?
$61,188 (±$4,402) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Truman?
10.9%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Truman?
18 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Truman work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fairmont (19%, 13 mi), Trimont (6%, 15 mi), Jackson (4%, 31 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Truman walkable?
Truman is more walkable than 67% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 8.2 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Truman without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Truman, from the people who make the trip.
More of Truman
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.