Work & commute · Little Falls

Work & commute in Little Falls, MN

About one in 3 of Little Falls’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are St. Cloud (8%), Brainerd (5%) and Rice (2%). Half commute less than 23 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

36%

1,314 of 3,675 working residents

Typical commute

23 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 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 2,361 Little Falls residents head out of town to work, 1,314 work right here, and 3,838 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Little Falls.

2,361live here, work elsewhere

1,314live and work here

3,838work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Little Falls goes to work

Little Falls (in town)right here

36%1,314

St. Cloud33.1 mi away

8%283

Brainerd26.5 mi away

5%172

Rice16.7 mi away

2%89

Little Falls3.7 mi away

2%66

Royalton11.3 mi away

2%63

Sauk Rapids28.8 mi away

2%63

Sartell26.4 mi away

2%59

Waite Park32.7 mi away

2%57

Baxter24.9 mi away

1%54

Everywhere elseother towns and states

40%1,455

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.

41%

12%

28%

20%

41%Under 10 mi

12%10–24 mi

28%25–50 mi

20%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Little Falls is balanced between jobs and homes

1.40jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.40 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Little Falls are

5,152 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

5,152 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month51%

Jobs Little Falls residents hold

3,675 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)22%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month54%

−12%

Jobs based in Little Falls, 2013 → 2023: 5,870 → 5,152. 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.