Emmons County Courthouse · Photo: Andrew Filer · CC BY-SA 2.0Linton has lower household incomes than 90% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 10.4% of residents, against 10.8% across North Dakota. Linton grades D for jobs and income and A for walkability. About one in five work in Linton; the top destination outside it is Bismarck (17%, 46 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Linton, in brief
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Linton
On income, poverty and job access, Linton is better than 10% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Linton’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 2% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (5.9%) is left out: Linton’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, Linton could be anywhere from D− to C.
The distance from Linton to work
About 26% 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.
How many people are in Linton by day
On a workday 276 residents head out to work, 69 work right here, and 340 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 (1.19 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.
Out of Linton to work: where people go
Where Linton clocks in
17% of workers
7% of workers
6% 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 the 409 jobs in Linton are
409 jobs are based in Linton.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Linton, 2013 → 2023: 401 → 409. 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 Linton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 17 minutes to work from Linton
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Linton workers work from home, vs 8% across North Dakota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 337 commuters (the 9% 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Linton
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Linton is more walkable than 88% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Linton near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 372 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). 12.8% of Linton households have no vehicle (North Dakota 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Linton’s commuters take a bus or train.
Linton places 2,555th of 3,133 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | 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 |
| … | |||||||
| 2,553 | Beaver Township OH | 1,271 | $51K | 15.4% | 10.2% | 1% | D |
| 2,554 | Elbow Lake MN | 1,276 | $60K | 19.3% | 4.9% | 18% | D |
| 2,555 | Linton ND | 1,041 | $48K | 10.4% | 5.9% | 20% | D |
| 2,556 | Marion WI | 1,273 | $61K | 19.6% | 2.2% | 10% | D |
| 2,557 | Eden Township OH | 1,001 | $57K | 21.8% | 1.0% | <1% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Linton, 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 Linton: questions
What is the median household income in Linton?
$47,500 (±$13,618) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,657 across North Dakota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Linton?
10.4%, against 10.8% across North Dakota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Linton?
17 minutes each way on average, against 18 across North Dakota and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Linton work?
20% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bismarck (17%, 46 mi), Strasburg (7%, 10 mi), Hazelton (6%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Linton walkable?
Linton is more walkable than 88% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.7 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Linton without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 13% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Linton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Linton
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.