Photo: Andrew Filer from Seattle (ex-Minneapolis) · CC BY-SA 2.0Earning a living in Lankin
Only 3% stay in Lankin for work; outside it, Park River is the main destination (18%, 10 miles). Working residents average 17 minutes each way (North Dakota 18, U.S. 26). Lankin has 25 jobs for 33 working residents.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Lankin for work, and who comes in
On a workday 32 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 24 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 (0.76 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 the trip to work from Lankin ends
Where Lankin clocks in
18% of workers
12% of workers
9% 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.
68% of the jobs in Lankin pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lankin, 2013 → 2023: 24 → 25. 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 Lankin’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 17 minutes each way for Lankin’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lankin workers work from home, vs 8% across North Dakota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 44 commuters (the 12% 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.
How far Lankin’s workers travel
About 21% 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.
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 Lankin: questions
What is the poverty rate in Lankin?
31.2%, against 10.8% across North Dakota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lankin?
17 minutes each way on average, against 18 across North Dakota and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lankin work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Park River (18%, 10 mi), Grand Forks (12%, 47 mi), Cavalier (9%, 36 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Lankin without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lankin, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lankin
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.