Photo: Andrew Filer from Seattle (ex-Minneapolis) · CC BY-SA 2.0Unemployment in Hazen (2.4%) is lower than in 79% of U.S. towns
The trip to work takes 15 minutes on average (North Dakota 18, U.S. 26). For jobs and income Hazen is better than 46% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 79% of U.S. towns (A−). About one in three stay in Hazen for work; outside it, Beulah is the main destination (12%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What’s behind Hazen’s Jobs & income grade
Unemployment holds Hazen’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 6% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Hazen could be anywhere from C− to A−.
Hazen on a workday afternoon
On a workday 691 residents head out to work, 322 work right here, and 508 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 (0.82 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.
The towns that employ Hazen’s residents
Where Hazen clocks in
12% of workers
10% of workers
4% 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 work there is in Hazen: 830 jobs
830 jobs are based in Hazen.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hazen, 2013 → 2023: 730 → 830. 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 Hazen’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 15 minutes each way for Hazen’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hazen workers work from home, vs 8% across North Dakota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,016 commuters (the 6% 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.
Miles to work from Hazen
About 27% 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Hazen
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 10.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.2% across North Dakota, on an EPA index of 7.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,081 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). 2.6% of Hazen households have no vehicle (North Dakota 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hazen’s commuters take a bus or train.
Hazen next to U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,100: 2,473rd of 5,328 on jobs and income
| # | 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 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 390 | Gibbs Township ND | 2,856 | $156K | 1.4% | 2.9% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 783 | Harrison Township ND | 1,734 | $122K | 5.1% | 5.2% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,126 | Casselton ND | 2,485 | $73K | 7.1% | 0.9% | 19% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,471 | Deerfield Township OH | 2,885 | $59K | 18.2% | 2.1% | 2% | B− |
| 2,472 | Fairview NC | 2,298 | $92K | 25.2% | 5.7% | 2% | B− |
| 2,473 | Hazen ND | 2,314 | $80K | 10.3% | 2.4% | 32% | B− |
| 2,474 | Sunray TX | 1,739 | $66K | 8.2% | 2.8% | 18% | B− |
| 2,475 | Woodbranch TX | 1,624 | $86K | 26.6% | 5.0% | <1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,328 | 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 Hazen, 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 Hazen: questions
What is the median household income in Hazen?
$79,609 (±$7,916) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,657 across North Dakota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hazen?
10.3%, against 10.8% across North Dakota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hazen?
15 minutes each way on average, against 18 across North Dakota and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hazen work?
32% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Beulah (12%, 7 mi), Bismarck (10%, 52 mi), Stanton (4%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hazen walkable?
Hazen is more walkable than 79% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and 10% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hazen without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hazen, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hazen
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.