Photo: Ev3rm0r3 · CC BY-SA 4.0Tioga has lower household incomes than 64% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 8.0% of residents, against 10.8% across North Dakota. Tioga grades C for jobs and income and B for walkability. About one in four work in Tioga itself; outside it, Williston draws the most (15%, 35 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Tioga at work: what stands out
Tioga’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Tioga is Williston, 35 miles away as the crow flies. 15% of working residents (130) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Most jobs in Tioga pay over $40,000 a year
75% of the jobs based in Tioga pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), the top earnings band in the Census data. The jobs ↓
Tioga makes and builds things
39% of the jobs based in Tioga are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Tioga residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 36%. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 884 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Tioga’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Tioga is better than 30% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Tioga’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 12% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (2.9%) is left out: Tioga’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Tioga could be anywhere from D to B.
Where in the region Tioga works
About 19% 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.
Making and building: 39% of jobs based in Tioga
1,151 jobs are based in Tioga.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tioga, 2013 → 2023: 1,077 → 1,151. 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 Tioga’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Tioga on a workday afternoon
On a workday 634 residents head out to work, 250 work right here, and 901 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,500 people are in Tioga on a workday afternoon, 12% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.30 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 Tioga to work: where people go
Where Tioga clocks in
15% of workers
12% 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.
Commuting from Tioga: about 21 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tioga workers work from home, vs 8% across North Dakota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 700 commuters (the 5% 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.
Tioga is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Tioga is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.2% across North Dakota, on an EPA index of 7.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 736 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). 12.6% of Tioga households have no vehicle (North Dakota 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Tioga’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Tioga is 3,263rd among 5,102 U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,000
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 376 | Gibbs Township ND | 2,856 | $156K | 1.4% | 2.9% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 747 | Harrison Township ND | 1,734 | $122K | 5.1% | 5.2% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,072 | Casselton ND | 2,485 | $73K | 7.1% | 0.9% | 19% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,261 | North Norwich NY | 1,645 | $78K | 12.3% | 3.1% | 2% | C |
| 3,262 | Hunter TN | 1,918 | $52K | 13.7% | 4.1% | 2% | C |
| 3,263 | Tioga ND | 2,221 | $66K | 8.0% | 2.9% | 28% | C |
| 3,264 | Rankin PA | 1,975 | $48K | 24.9% | 10.4% | 1% | C |
| 3,265 | Garland UT | 2,915 | $74K | 13.5% | 5.5% | 3% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,102 | 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 Tioga, the top three, the last and three more from North Dakota.
Work next door: 12% of Tioga’s workers
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Tioga workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tioga | – | C | B | 21 min | $66,181 |
| Tioga Township | 12% | — | — | — | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Tioga Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Tioga Township. Darker towns draw more of Tioga’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 Tioga: questions
What is the median household income in Tioga?
$66,181 (±$23,136) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,657 across North Dakota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tioga?
8.0%, against 10.8% across North Dakota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tioga?
21 minutes each way on average, against 18 across North Dakota and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tioga work?
28% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Williston (15%, 35 mi), Tioga Township (12%, 2 mi), Minot (3%, 77 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Tioga walkable?
Tioga is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.0 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Tioga 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 Tioga, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tioga
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.