Photo: Niceley · CC BY-SA 3.0Households in Tyler have lower incomes than those in 65% of U.S. towns
Tyler grades C− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Below the poverty line: 10.6% of residents, where Minnesota as a whole has 9.3%. About one in five stay in Tyler for work; outside it, Marshall is the main destination (20%, 21 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Tyler
The figures behind Tyler’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Tyler is better than 22% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Tyler’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 11% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (4.1%) is left out: Tyler’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, Tyler could be anywhere from D to C+.
Inside Tyler’s 505 jobs
505 jobs are based in Tyler.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tyler, 2013 → 2023: 712 → 505. 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 Tyler’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Tyler on a workday afternoon
On a workday 449 residents head out to work, 96 work right here, and 409 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 (0.93 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 towns that employ Tyler’s residents
Where Tyler clocks in
20% 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.
Tyler’s commute takes about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tyler workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 428 commuters (the 15% 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.
How many miles Tyler commutes
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.
Tyler is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Tyler is more walkable than 42% 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 501 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). 3.1% of Tyler households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Tyler’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500, Tyler comes 2,442nd 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Medicine Lake MN | 1,342 | $184K | 2.7% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Dellwood MN | 1,148 | $225K | 4.1% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Louisville Township MN | 1,361 | $143K | 1.1% | 0.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,440 | Strum WI | 1,075 | $69K | 17.4% | 0.6% | 6% | C− |
| 2,441 | Moscow Township MI | 1,380 | $59K | 12.3% | 3.0% | 1% | C− |
| 2,442 | Tyler MN | 1,112 | $66K | 10.6% | 4.1% | 18% | C− |
| 2,443 | Spencer Township IN | 1,244 | $54K | 16.2% | 16.8% | 5% | C− |
| 2,444 | Crowley Lake CA | 1,069 | $115K | 32.3% | 0.0% | 3% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Tyler, the top three, the last and three more from Minnesota.
Work in the towns next to Tyler
The biggest share goes to Hope Township (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Tyler workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tyler | – | C− | C+ | 23 min | $65,500 |
| Hope Township | 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Marshfield Township | under 2% | — | — | 23 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Hope Township and Marshfield Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Tyler’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 Tyler: questions
What is the median household income in Tyler?
$65,500 (±$8,819) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tyler?
10.6%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tyler?
23 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tyler work?
18% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Marshall (20%, 21 mi), Pipestone (9%, 21 mi), Brookings (7%, 32 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Tyler walkable?
Tyler is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.5 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Tyler without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Tyler, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tyler
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.