Work & commute · Little Falls

Work & commute in Little Falls, MN

Most working residents leave Little Falls for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Little Falls (28%), St. Cloud (11%) and Brainerd (6%). Half commute less than 25 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

14 of 756 working residents

Typical commute

25 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

27 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 742 Little Falls residents head out of town to work, 14 work right here, and 286 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Little Falls.

742live here, work elsewhere

14live and work here

286work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Little Falls goes to work

Little Falls3.7 mi away

28%214

St. Cloud29.7 mi away

11%86

Brainerd28.9 mi away

6%49

Rice13.3 mi away

4%27

Royalton8 mi away

3%24

Sartell23 mi away

3%19

Waite Park29.5 mi away

3%19

Sauk Rapids25.3 mi away

2%15

Little Falls (in town)right here

2%14

Baxter27.6 mi away

2%13

Everywhere elseother towns and states

37%276

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

How far

How far Little Falls commutes

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

36%

14%

34%

16%

36%Under 10 mi

14%10–24 mi

34%25–50 mi

16%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Little Falls is a commuter town

0.40jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Little Falls are

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

Jobs based in Little Falls

300 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities38%

Services (health, schools, offices…)54%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month57%

Jobs Little Falls residents hold

756 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)25%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)55%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month65%

−27%

Jobs based in Little Falls, 2013 → 2023: 413 → 300. 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.