Work & commute · La Crescent

Work & commute in La Crescent, MN

Most working residents leave La Crescent for work: only 15% work in town. The top destinations are La Crosse (41%), Onalaska (8%) and Winona (5%). Half commute less than 5 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

15%

336 of 2,290 working residents

Typical commute

5 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

18 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

15%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,954 La Crescent residents head out of town to work, 336 work right here, and 1,218 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in La Crescent.

1,954live here, work elsewhere

336live and work here

1,218work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where La Crescent goes to work

La Crosse, WI4 mi away

41%938

La Crescent (in town)right here

15%336

Onalaska, WI6.5 mi away

8%175

Winona23.7 mi away

5%118

Rochester59.8 mi away

3%74

Caledonia16.7 mi away

2%37

West Salem, WI11.8 mi away

1%32

Campbell, WI3.9 mi away

1%29

Onalaska, WI7.4 mi away

1%28

St. Paul117.8 mi away

1%21

Everywhere elseother towns and states

22%502

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

How far

How far La Crescent commutes

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

68%

11%

18%

68%Under 10 mi

11%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

18%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

La Crescent is a commuter town

0.68jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in La Crescent are

1,554 jobs are based in La Crescent. Here is what they are, next to the jobs La Crescent’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in La Crescent

1,554 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)22%

Trade, transport & utilities9%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less25%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month50%

Jobs La Crescent residents hold

2,290 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month64%

+33%

Jobs based in La Crescent, 2013 → 2023: 1,168 → 1,554. 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.