Taralseth, K.J., Company · Photo: K. J. Taralseth Company, Warren Sheaf · Public domainHouseholds in Warren earn less than those in 74% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 13.9% of residents; Minnesota has 9.3%. Warren grades D for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. Home is the office for 4% of workers, next to 18% for Minnesota as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Warren stands out on work
Warren’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Warren is Grand Forks, ND, 24 miles away as the crow flies. 16% of working residents (117) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Commutes from Warren are quick
The average trip to work takes 15 minutes, against 23 across Minnesota. That’s about 61 hours a year less on the road than the typical Minnesota worker. Time on the road ↓
Few Warren workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 18% across Minnesota. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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 728 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Warren’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Warren is better than 13% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Warren’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 12% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (1.9%) is left out: Warren’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, Warren could be anywhere from D to C.
Warren’s commute, mile by mile
About 17% 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.
The trip to work from Warren: about 15 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Warren workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 712 commuters (the 4% 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.
In and out of Warren on a workday
On a workday 499 residents head out to work, 229 work right here, and 629 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 (1.18 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.
16% of working residents work in Grand Forks
Where Warren clocks in
16% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Warren
858 jobs are based in Warren.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Warren, 2013 → 2023: 863 → 858. 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 Warren’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute in Warren is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Warren is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Warren near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 739 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). 11.4% of Warren households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Warren’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,794 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100, Warren comes 4,546th 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 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Medicine Lake MN | 1,342 | $184K | 2.7% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Dellwood MN | 1,148 | $225K | 4.1% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Louisville Township MN | 1,361 | $143K | 1.1% | 0.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,544 | Clinton WI | 1,461 | $73K | 26.3% | 1.1% | 1% | D |
| 4,545 | Montrose MI | 1,700 | $44K | 28.9% | 2.9% | 4% | D |
| 4,546 | Warren MN | 1,558 | $60K | 13.9% | 1.9% | 31% | D |
| 4,547 | Stockdale TX | 1,494 | $53K | 24.5% | 5.2% | 10% | D |
| 4,548 | Dighton Township KS | 1,101 | $53K | 9.5% | 0.0% | 42% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Warren, the top three, the last and three more from Minnesota.
Next door to Warren
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Warren workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warren | – | D | B+ | 15 min | $59,875 |
| Warrenton Township | under 2% | — | — | 12 min | — |
| McCrea Township | under 2% | — | — | 17 min | — |
| Boxville Township | under 2% | — | — | 15 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Warrenton Township, McCrea Township and Boxville Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Warren’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 Warren: questions
What is the median household income in Warren?
$59,875 (±$7,978) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Warren?
13.9%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Warren?
15 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Warren work?
31% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Grand Forks (16%, 24 mi), Thief River Falls (10%, 28 mi), East Grand Forks (5%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Warren walkable?
Warren is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.9 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Warren without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Warren, from the people who make the trip.
More of Warren
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.