Work & commute · Pine River

Work & commute in Pine River, MN

Most working residents leave Pine River for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Pine River (13%), Hackensack (11%) and Walker (5%). Half commute less than 20 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
2%
8 of 446 working residents
Typical commute
20 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
21 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
10%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 438 Pine River residents head out of town to work, 8 work right here, and 59 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Pine River.

438live here, work elsewhere
8live and work here
59work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Pine River goes to work

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1
Pine River4.1 mi away
13%57
2
Hackensack11.9 mi away
11%47
3
Walker23.7 mi away
5%24
4
Brainerd30.6 mi away
4%20
5
Pequot Lakes14.4 mi away
4%17
6
Wilson6.1 mi away
4%16
7
Powers6.4 mi away
3%13
8
Backus4.9 mi away
3%12
9
Crosslake18.2 mi away
3%12
10
Baxter30 mi away
2%11
Everywhere elseother towns and states
49%217

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

How far

How far Pine River commutes

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

27%Under 10 mi
29%10–24 mi
18%25–50 mi
26%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Pine River is a commuter town

0.15jobs per working resident
A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Pine River are

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

Jobs based in Pine River

67 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)30%
Trade, transport & utilities12%
Services (health, schools, offices…)58%
$1,250 a month or less15%
$1,251–$3,333 a month28%
Over $3,333 a month57%

Jobs Pine River residents hold

446 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)24%
Trade, transport & utilities19%
Services (health, schools, offices…)57%
$1,250 a month or less16%
$1,251–$3,333 a month32%
Over $3,333 a month51%
+40%

Jobs based in Pine River, 2013 → 2023: 48 → 67. 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.

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