Photo: Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0There are 3.5 jobs in Warroad for every working resident, and 2,530 people commute in
Household incomes here are lower than in 87% of U.S. towns. Warroad has 3,151 jobs for 912 working residents. The two grades for Warroad are D for jobs and income and B for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Warroad
Warroad fills up on a workday
Warroad has 3,151 jobs, 3.5 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 4,200 people are in town, more than double the 2,000 who live here. Day and night ↓
Warroad makes and builds things
70% of the jobs based in Warroad are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Warroad residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 51%. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Warroad are quick
The average trip to work takes 11 minutes, against 23 across Minnesota. That’s about 92 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 912 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Warroad’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Warroad is better than 7% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Warroad’s grade.
Unemployment (6.1%) is left out: Warroad’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, Warroad could be anywhere from D− to C−.
Who commutes out of Warroad, and who commutes in
On a workday 291 residents head out to work and 621 work right here.
About 4,200 people are in Warroad on a workday afternoon, 113% more than live here.
3.5 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Warroad makes things: 70% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Warroad, 2013 → 2023: 3,104 → 3,151. 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 Warroad’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 11 minutes from Warroad
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Warroad workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 750 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.
The daily trip into Warroad
Where Warroad clocks in
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.
How far Warroad’s workers travel
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.
In Warroad, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Warroad is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.7% across Minnesota, on an EPA index of 6.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 820 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). 17.8% of Warroad households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Warroad’s commuters take a bus or train.
Warroad places 4,926th of 5,509 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Tonka Bay MN | 1,561 | $156K | 3.5% | 9.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 42 | May Township MN | 2,638 | $137K | 2.0% | 0.7% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 53 | Stillwater Township MN | 1,831 | $162K | 3.4% | 3.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,924 | Wray CO | 2,352 | $57K | 17.5% | 0.5% | 37% | D |
| 4,925 | Audubon IA | 1,989 | $40K | 14.4% | 2.4% | 35% | D |
| 4,926 | Warroad MN | 1,976 | $51K | 21.0% | 6.1% | 68% | D |
| 4,927 | Waldport OR | 2,268 | $56K | 15.7% | 17.2% | 10% | D |
| 4,928 | Grapeland TX | 1,475 | $40K | 13.1% | 10.7% | 17% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,509 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Warroad, the top three, the last and three more from Minnesota.
Work in the towns next to Warroad
The biggest share goes to Lake Township (6%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Warroad workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warroad | – | D | B | 11 min | $50,625 |
| Lake Township | 6% | C− | C− | 11 min | $76,190 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Warroad’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 Warroad: questions
What is the median household income in Warroad?
$50,625 (±$6,059) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Warroad?
21.0%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Warroad?
11 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Warroad work?
68% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lake Township (6%, 4 mi), Roseau (5%, 20 mi), Thief River Falls (1%, 68 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Warroad walkable?
Warroad is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.5 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Warroad without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 18% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Warroad, from the people who make the trip.
More of Warroad
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.