Ensign Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, where North Dakota as a whole has 8%. There are 9 jobs in Ensign Township, against 33 working residents. Hardly any work in Ensign Township itself; outside it, Minot draws the most (24%, 18 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Ensign Township, and who commutes in
On a workday 33 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 9 people come in from elsewhere.
About 73 people are in Ensign Township on a workday afternoon, 25% fewer than live here.
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 Ensign Township goes to work
Where Ensign Township clocks in
15% 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 kinds of work in Ensign Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ensign Township, 2013 → 2023: 15 → 9. 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 Ensign Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 36 minutes in Ensign Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ensign Township workers work from home, vs 8% across North Dakota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 70 commuters (the 0% 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.
Where in the region Ensign Township works
About 33% 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.
Work in the towns next to Ensign Township
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Ensign Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ensign Township | – | — | — | 36 min | $108,750 |
| Van Buren Township | under 4% | — | — | — | — |
| Elms Township | under 4% | — | — | — | — |
| Prescott Township | under 4% | — | — | — | — |
| Tatman Township | under 4% | B− | C | 9 min | $61,216 |
Same-state neighbors only. Van Buren Township, Elms Township and Prescott Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Ensign Township’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 Ensign Township: questions
What is the median household income in Ensign Township?
$108,750 (±$80,422) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,657 across North Dakota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ensign Township?
0.0%, against 10.8% across North Dakota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ensign Township?
36 minutes each way on average, against 18 across North Dakota and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ensign Township work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Minot (24%, 18 mi), Mohall (18%, 22 mi), Fargo (15%, 234 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Ensign Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ensign Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ensign Township
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.