Work & commute · Crooks

Work & commute in Crooks, MN

Most working residents leave Crooks for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Granite Falls (10%), Olivia (6%) and Sacred Heart (5%). Half commute less than 18 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

1 of 94 working residents

Typical commute

18 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

24 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

14%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 93 Crooks residents head out of town to work, 1 work right here, and 24 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Crooks.

93live here, work elsewhere

1live and work here

24work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Crooks goes to work

Granite Falls18 mi away

10%9

Olivia10.1 mi away

6%6

Sacred Heart9.6 mi away

5%5

Renville4.1 mi away

5%5

Willmar19.8 mi away

5%5

Emmet6.1 mi away

5%5

Montevideo27.2 mi away

3%3

Ericson5.6 mi away

3%3

Danube5.4 mi away

2%2

Morton22.5 mi away

2%2

Everywhere elseother towns and states

52%49

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

How far

How far Crooks commutes

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

24%

40%

29%

24%Under 10 mi

40%10–24 mi

6%25–50 mi

29%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Crooks is a commuter town

0.27jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Crooks are

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

Jobs based in Crooks

25 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)60%

Trade, transport & utilities12%

Services (health, schools, offices…)28%

$1,250 a month or less28%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month44%

Jobs Crooks residents hold

94 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)27%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)49%

$1,250 a month or less24%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month51%

+108%

Jobs based in Crooks, 2013 → 2023: 12 → 25. 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.