100% of Roy Lake’s working residents leave town for work
Most working residents leave Roy Lake for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are Bagley (32%), Fosston (18%) and Mahnomen (14%). Half commute less than 20 miles.
What kind of work town is Roy Lake?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
32% of working residents work in Bagley
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Roy Lake clocks in
32% of workers
14% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
About 41 minutes each way, longer than most of Minnesota
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Roy Lake workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Roy Lake quiets down on a workday
On a workday 22 residents head out to work, 0 work right here, and 0 people come in from elsewhere.
About 39 people are in Roy Lake on a workday afternoon, 36% fewer than live here.
0.00 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Half of Roy Lake commutes less than 20 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 18% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Roy Lake and the towns next door
Darker towns draw more of Roy Lake’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Average commute minutes, one way
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
- Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
More of Roy Lake
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Roy Lake, from the people who make the trip.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.