First National Bank · Photo: Elkman · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Winnebago trail those of 75% of U.S. towns
For 4% of workers, the job is at home, where Minnesota as a whole has 18%. 11.1% of residents are in poverty, next to 9.3% for Minnesota as a whole. Jobs and income earn Winnebago C−; getting around on foot earns it B+.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Winnebago, in brief
Where Winnebago’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Winnebago is better than 20% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Winnebago’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 16% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (7.3%) is left out: Winnebago’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, Winnebago could be anywhere from D to B−.
Commuting from Winnebago: about 23 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Winnebago workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 585 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.
Winnebago by day and by night
On a workday 445 residents head out to work, 83 work right here, and 298 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Winnebago on a workday afternoon, 11% fewer than live here.
0.72 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
17% of working residents work in Blue Earth
Where Winnebago clocks in
9% of workers
8% 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.
What Winnebago’s employers do
381 jobs are based in Winnebago.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Winnebago, 2013 → 2023: 388 → 381. 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 Winnebago’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Winnebago goes to work
About 24% 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 commute in Winnebago is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Winnebago is more walkable than 73% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.7% across Minnesota, on an EPA index of 7.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 611 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). 6.9% of Winnebago households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Winnebago’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900, Winnebago ranks 4,085th of 5,877 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Medicine Lake MN | 1,342 | $184K | 2.7% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Dellwood MN | 1,148 | $225K | 4.1% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 35 | Louisville Township MN | 1,361 | $143K | 1.1% | 0.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,083 | Susquehanna Township PA | 1,840 | $52K | 10.3% | 4.7% | 2% | C− |
| 4,084 | Dover VT | 1,827 | $52K | 7.3% | 2.8% | 37% | C− |
| 4,085 | Winnebago MN | 1,383 | $60K | 11.1% | 7.3% | 16% | C− |
| 4,086 | Blossburg PA | 1,496 | $69K | 13.2% | 5.1% | 7% | C− |
| 4,087 | New Lyme Township OH | 1,026 | $55K | 13.2% | 7.2% | 1% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | 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 Winnebago, the top three, the last and three more from Minnesota.
The towns around Winnebago
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Winnebago workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winnebago | – | C− | B+ | 23 min | $59,643 |
| Verona Township | under 2% | — | — | 19 min | — |
| Winnebago City Township | under 2% | — | — | 25 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Verona Township and Winnebago City Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Winnebago’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 Winnebago: questions
What is the median household income in Winnebago?
$59,643 (±$17,525) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Winnebago?
11.1%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Winnebago?
23 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Winnebago work?
16% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Blue Earth (17%, 9 mi), Fairmont (9%, 17 mi), Mankato (8%, 30 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Winnebago walkable?
Winnebago is more walkable than 73% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.5 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Winnebago 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 Winnebago, from the people who make the trip.
More of Winnebago
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.