Work & commute · Good Hope

Work & commute in Good Hope, MN

Most working residents leave Good Hope for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Deer River (23%), Grand Rapids (11%) and Max (6%). Half commute less than 42 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

1 of 53 working residents

Typical commute

42 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

44 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 52 Good Hope residents head out of town to work, 1 work right here, and 10 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Good Hope.

52live here, work elsewhere

1live and work here

10work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Good Hope goes to work

Deer River28.6 mi away

23%12

Grand Rapids42.3 mi away

11%6

Max5.6 mi away

6%3

Pike Bay26.9 mi away

6%3

Blackduck17.2 mi away

4%2

Cohasset37.7 mi away

4%2

Bismarck, ND312.6 mi away

4%2

Bagley55.9 mi away

2%1

Walker41.7 mi away

2%1

Jenkins68.5 mi away

2%1

Everywhere elseother towns and states

38%20

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

How far

How far Good Hope commutes

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

51%

36%

8%Under 10 mi

6%10–24 mi

51%25–50 mi

36%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Good Hope is a commuter town

0.21jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Good Hope are

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

Jobs based in Good Hope

11 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)91%

Trade, transport & utilities9%

Services (health, schools, offices…)0%

$1,250 a month or less27%

$1,251–$3,333 a month55%

Over $3,333 a month18%

Jobs Good Hope residents hold

53 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)28%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)49%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month51%

+0%

Jobs based in Good Hope, 2013 → 2023: 11 → 11. 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.