Work & commute · Sweet

Work & commute in Sweet, MN

Most working residents leave Sweet for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Pipestone (31%), Sioux Falls (9%) and Edgerton (6%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

3 of 175 working residents

Typical commute

16 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

14 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 172 Sweet residents head out of town to work, 3 work right here, and 62 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Sweet.

172live here, work elsewhere

3live and work here

62work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Sweet goes to work

Pipestone3.8 mi away

31%54

Sioux Falls, SD34.9 mi away

9%15

Edgerton14.5 mi away

6%11

Jasper9 mi away

5%9

Luverne24 mi away

5%9

Brewster49.8 mi away

3%6

Marshall43.9 mi away

2%4

Colman, SD21.4 mi away

2%4

Albert Lea152.2 mi away

2%3

Bloomington162.5 mi away

2%3

Everywhere elseother towns and states

33%57

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

How far

How far Sweet commutes

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

38%

21%

16%

25%

38%Under 10 mi

21%10–24 mi

16%25–50 mi

25%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Sweet is a commuter town

0.37jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Sweet are

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

Jobs based in Sweet

65 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)72%

$1,250 a month or less8%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month71%

Jobs Sweet residents hold

175 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)27%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)51%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month53%

−2%

Jobs based in Sweet, 2013 → 2023: 66 → 65. 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.