Photo: Andrew Filer from Seattle (ex-Minneapolis) · CC BY-SA 2.0Cando’s household incomes are lower than in 86% of U.S. towns
About one in four work in Cando; the top destination outside it is Cando Township (11%, 2 miles). 6.4% of residents live below the poverty line, against 10.8% across North Dakota. The two grades for Cando are C− 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
Why Cando gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Cando is better than 20% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Cando’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.2%) is left out: Cando’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, Cando could be anywhere from D to C+.
Who works in Cando, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 300 residents head out to work, 127 work right here, and 203 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 (0.77 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.
Where Cando goes to work
Where Cando clocks in
11% of workers
7% 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.
The 330 jobs based in Cando
330 jobs are based in Cando.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cando, 2013 → 2023: 411 → 330. 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 Cando’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 14 minutes from Cando
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cando workers work from home, vs 8% across North Dakota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 515 commuters (the 3% who work from home are left out). Across North Dakota: 85% drive alone, <1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
The commute from Cando, by distance
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.
Few in Cando walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cando is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.2% across North Dakota, on an EPA index of 6.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 532 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). 2.1% of Cando households have no vehicle (North Dakota 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Cando’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400, Cando comes 2,122nd 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 51 | Reed Township ND | 1,151 | $131K | 0.4% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 98 | Williston Township ND | 1,116 | $250K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 8% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 184 | Sundre Township ND | 1,024 | $107K | 1.4% | 0.0% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,120 | Raymond MS | 1,384 | $40K | 20.6% | 4.0% | 4% | C− |
| 2,121 | Franklinville NC | 1,256 | $53K | 18.2% | 2.8% | 2% | C− |
| 2,122 | Cando ND | 1,051 | $52K | 6.4% | 0.2% | 30% | C− |
| 2,123 | Ansonia OH | 1,147 | $62K | 17.2% | 5.3% | 2% | C− |
| 2,124 | Preston Township IL | 1,166 | $54K | 9.2% | 0.0% | 1% | 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 Cando, the top three, the last and three more from North Dakota.
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 Cando: questions
What is the median household income in Cando?
$51,500 (±$13,730) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,657 across North Dakota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cando?
6.4%, against 10.8% across North Dakota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cando?
14 minutes each way on average, against 18 across North Dakota and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cando work?
30% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cando Township (11%, 2 mi), Devils Lake (7%, 30 mi), Rolla (6%, 31 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cando walkable?
Cando is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.6 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cando without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cando, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cando
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.