Work & commute · Two Harbors

Work & commute in Two Harbors, MN

About one in 3 of Two Harbors’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Duluth (20%), Silver Creek (7%) and Stony River (3%). Half commute less than 24 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

31%

477 of 1,526 working residents

Typical commute

24 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 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 1,049 Two Harbors residents head out of town to work, 477 work right here, and 994 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Two Harbors.

1,049live here, work elsewhere

477live and work here

994work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Two Harbors goes to work

Two Harbors (in town)right here

31%477

Duluth27.9 mi away

20%312

Silver Creek15.5 mi away

7%100

Stony River45.2 mi away

3%44

Silver Bay26.1 mi away

2%32

Superior, WI30.1 mi away

2%25

Minneapolis162 mi away

1%21

Duluth10.3 mi away

1%19

St. Paul159.3 mi away

1%16

Eden Prairie173.3 mi away

1%14

Everywhere elseother towns and states

31%466

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

How far

How far Two Harbors commutes

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

46%

26%

22%

46%Under 10 mi

7%10–24 mi

26%25–50 mi

22%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Two Harbors is balanced between jobs and homes

0.96jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.96 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Two Harbors are

1,471 jobs are based in Two Harbors. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Two Harbors’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Two Harbors

1,471 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)72%

$1,250 a month or less23%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month46%

Jobs Two Harbors residents hold

1,526 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month54%

−6%

Jobs based in Two Harbors, 2013 → 2023: 1,559 → 1,471. 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.