Work & commute · Crooked Lake

Work & commute in Crooked Lake, MN

Most working residents leave Crooked Lake for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Grand Rapids (10%), Remer (9%) and Walker (5%). Half commute less than 33 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

7 of 166 working residents

Typical commute

33 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

30 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

22%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 159 Crooked Lake residents head out of town to work, 7 work right here, and 97 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Crooked Lake.

159live here, work elsewhere

7live and work here

97work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Crooked Lake goes to work

Grand Rapids35.5 mi away

10%17

Remer16.3 mi away

9%15

Walker33.8 mi away

5%8

Crooked Lake (in town)right here

4%7

Shingobee33.6 mi away

4%7

Kego18.2 mi away

4%7

Cass Lake47.9 mi away

2%4

Baxter36.1 mi away

2%4

St. Cloud90.3 mi away

2%4

Minneapolis133.3 mi away

2%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

54%89

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Crooked Lake commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

25%

40%

28%

7%Under 10 mi

25%10–24 mi

40%25–50 mi

28%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Crooked Lake is a commuter town

0.63jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.63 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Crooked Lake are

104 jobs are based in Crooked Lake. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Crooked Lake’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Crooked Lake

104 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)45%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)35%

$1,250 a month or less24%

$1,251–$3,333 a month45%

Over $3,333 a month31%

Jobs Crooked Lake residents hold

166 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)54%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month49%

+174%

Jobs based in Crooked Lake, 2013 → 2023: 38 → 104. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.