Work & commute · Garden

Work & commute in Garden, MN

Most working residents leave Garden for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are Thief River Falls (15%), Crookston (12%) and McIntosh (9%). Half commute less than 30 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

0 of 74 working residents

Typical commute

30 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

24 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 74 Garden residents head out of town to work, 0 work right here, and 10 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Garden.

74live here, work elsewhere

0live and work here

10work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Garden goes to work

Thief River Falls39.7 mi away

15%11

Crookston27.8 mi away

12%9

McIntosh13 mi away

9%7

Knute8.1 mi away

8%6

Erskine10 mi away

4%3

Mahnomen17 mi away

4%3

Winger6.4 mi away

3%2

Ulen32.3 mi away

3%2

Fertile7.4 mi away

3%2

Perham69.7 mi away

3%2

Everywhere elseother towns and states

36%27

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

How far

How far Garden commutes

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

15%

24%

38%

23%

15%Under 10 mi

24%10–24 mi

38%25–50 mi

23%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Garden is a commuter town

0.14jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Garden are

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

Jobs based in Garden

10 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)60%

Trade, transport & utilities40%

Services (health, schools, offices…)0%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month40%

Jobs Garden residents hold

74 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)22%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)54%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month19%

Over $3,333 a month62%

+43%

Jobs based in Garden, 2013 → 2023: 7 → 10. 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.