Grand Forks

City Commute Profile

Grand Forks, ND

Where Grand Forks’s 27,639 resident workers go each day — 70.1% work within the area; the top destination beyond it is Fargo.

North DakotaLODES 2023 data
90
Commute Score

90 / 100

How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.

Grand Forks at a glance
Employed Residents
27,639
Fewer than the city’s total population
Median home–work distance
9.5mi
Straight-line, not road distance
Work Locally
70.1%
Share working within the area
Work from home
6.5%
Residents who work from home (ACS)
Top destination outside city
Fargo
Excludes local — most work in-city

These figures are for Grand Forks proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.

How Grand Forks commutes

Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.

Grand Forks

27,639 commutes, one dot at a time

Grand Forks

Where 27,639 workers commute

Each dot ≈ 75 workers

Where residents work

Top destinations for people who live in Grand Forks, by worker count.

1Grand Forks0.0 mi19,380
2Fargo73.4 mi1,667
3East Grand Forks2.3 mi1,189
4Bismarck190.2 mi514
5Crookston22.9 mi316
6West Fargo73.2 mi253
7Minot197.3 mi239
8Grafton38.6 mi157

Who commutes in

Top origin places for workers who travel into Grand Forks.

1Grand Forks0.0 mi19,380
2East Grand Forks2.3 mi2,238
3Fargo73.4 mi1,139
4Bismarck190.2 mi483
5Thompson9.5 mi364
6West Fargo73.2 mi352
7Moorhead73.6 mi343
8Minot197.3 mi296

Top industries

The sectors that employ Grand Forks’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.

Bar length = each sector’s share of all local jobs (0–100%)
HCHealth Care and Social Assistance19.5%
EDEducational Services14.6%
RTRetail Trade13.8%
AFAccommodation and Food Services10.8%
MFManufacturing7.1%
COConstruction5.5%
PTProfessional, Scientific, and Technical Services4.7%
ADAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services3.8%
PAPublic Administration3.3%

Grand Forks city profile

Who lives in Grand Forks — population, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Population
59,042
Median age
29.6yrs
Median household income
$63,627
Median home value
$249,900
Median gross rent
$980/mo
Bachelor’s degree or higher
40.0%
Poverty rate
15.5%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.

Connectivity

Internet options for Grand Forks

The biggest home-internet providers in the area — tap any to compare local plans.

7 providers · 2 with fiber
Speed availabilityshare of homes a plan reaches
1 Gbps82% of homes
2 Gbps82%
5 Gbps82%
8 Gbps
See all internet providers in Grand Forks

FindBetterInternet is a CensusFlow partner site — we link out so you can compare local plans, and CensusFlow’s Census data stays independent. Provider data is from the FCC National Broadband Map (satellite + fixed wireless excluded).