Work & commute · Dassel

Work & commute in Dassel, MN

Most working residents leave Dassel for work: only 12% work in town. The top destinations are Cokato (11%), Hutchinson (8%) and Litchfield (5%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

12%

78 of 664 working residents

Typical commute

16 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

12%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 586 Dassel residents head out of town to work, 78 work right here, and 961 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Dassel.

586live here, work elsewhere

78live and work here

961work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Dassel goes to work

Dassel (in town)right here

12%78

Cokato6.3 mi away

11%73

Hutchinson14.1 mi away

8%56

Litchfield10.5 mi away

5%34

St. Cloud31.3 mi away

3%22

Buffalo23 mi away

3%19

Delano25.8 mi away

2%16

Annandale15.4 mi away

2%15

Stockholm7.4 mi away

2%15

St. Paul60 mi away

2%13

Everywhere elseother towns and states

49%323

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

How far

How far Dassel commutes

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

32%

30%

23%

15%

32%Under 10 mi

30%10–24 mi

23%25–50 mi

15%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Dassel is a job hub

1.56jobs per working resident

A job hub

1.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Dassel are

1,039 jobs are based in Dassel. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Dassel’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Dassel

1,039 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)51%

Trade, transport & utilities26%

Services (health, schools, offices…)23%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month70%

Jobs Dassel residents hold

664 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)30%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)53%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month60%

+34%

Jobs based in Dassel, 2013 → 2023: 777 → 1,039. 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.