Photo: Andrew Filer from Seattle (ex-Minneapolis) · CC BY-SA 2.0Osnabrock has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
0% of workers work from home, where North Dakota as a whole has 8%. There are 18 jobs in Osnabrock, against 37 working residents. Hardly any work in Osnabrock itself; outside it, Langdon draws the most (27%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Osnabrock, and who commutes in
On a workday 37 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 18 people come in from elsewhere.
About 74 people are in Osnabrock on a workday afternoon, 20% 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 people from Osnabrock work
Where Osnabrock clocks in
27% of workers
5% 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.
Osnabrock is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Osnabrock, 2013 → 2023: 6 → 18. 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 Osnabrock’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Osnabrock takes about 18 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Osnabrock workers work from home, vs 8% across North Dakota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 40 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.
How far Osnabrock’s workers travel
About 32% 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 Osnabrock: questions
What is the median household income in Osnabrock?
$19,479 (±$6,219) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,657 across North Dakota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Osnabrock?
19.8%, against 10.8% across North Dakota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Osnabrock?
18 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 Osnabrock work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Langdon (27%, 12 mi), Fargo (5%, 139 mi), Elgin Township (5%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Osnabrock 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 Osnabrock, from the people who make the trip.
More of Osnabrock
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.