Work & commute · Powers

Work & commute in Powers, MN

Most working residents leave Powers for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Pine River (8%), Hackensack (7%) and Brainerd (5%). Half commute less than 23 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

13 of 308 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 295 Powers residents head out of town to work, 13 work right here, and 114 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Powers.

295live here, work elsewhere

13live and work here

114work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Powers goes to work

Pine River9.2 mi away

8%25

Hackensack6 mi away

7%21

Brainerd36.3 mi away

5%16

Walker17.7 mi away

5%15

Powers (in town)right here

4%13

Woodrow7.4 mi away

4%12

Backus3.5 mi away

3%10

Minneapolis142.3 mi away

3%9

Bemidji48.3 mi away

3%8

Crosslake20.6 mi away

2%7

Everywhere elseother towns and states

56%172

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

How far

How far Powers commutes

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

28%

25%

16%

31%

28%Under 10 mi

25%10–24 mi

16%25–50 mi

31%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Powers is a commuter town

0.41jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Powers are

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

Jobs based in Powers

127 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities44%

Services (health, schools, offices…)43%

$1,250 a month or less36%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month32%

Jobs Powers residents hold

308 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month45%

+27%

Jobs based in Powers, 2013 → 2023: 100 → 127. 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.