Work & commute · Red Lake Falls

Work & commute in Red Lake Falls, MN

About one in 4 of Red Lake Falls’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Thief River Falls (30%), Crookston (6%) and Grand Forks (3%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

28%

176 of 635 working residents

Typical commute

16 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 459 Red Lake Falls residents head out of town to work, 176 work right here, and 324 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Red Lake Falls.

459live here, work elsewhere

176live and work here

324work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Red Lake Falls goes to work

Thief River Falls16.3 mi away

30%193

Red Lake Falls (in town)right here

28%176

Crookston17.2 mi away

6%38

Grand Forks, ND37.8 mi away

3%20

Fargo, ND75.1 mi away

2%13

Deer48.9 mi away

2%12

East Grand Forks34.5 mi away

2%11

Medina235.1 mi away

1%9

Emardville11.3 mi away

1%8

North18.4 mi away

1%8

Everywhere elseother towns and states

23%147

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

How far

How far Red Lake Falls commutes

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

30%

43%

19%

30%Under 10 mi

43%10–24 mi

8%25–50 mi

19%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Red Lake Falls is balanced between jobs and homes

0.79jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.79 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Red Lake Falls are

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

Jobs based in Red Lake Falls

500 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month49%

Jobs Red Lake Falls residents hold

635 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities33%

Services (health, schools, offices…)49%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month18%

Over $3,333 a month67%

−6%

Jobs based in Red Lake Falls, 2013 → 2023: 534 → 500. 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.