Photo: shannonpatric17 · CC BY 2.0Household incomes in Minneapolis are lower than in 77% of U.S. towns
About one in four work in Minneapolis itself; outside it, Salina draws the most (27%, 22 miles). 10.1% of residents are in poverty; Kansas has 11.3%. Minneapolis grades C− for jobs and income and B+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Minneapolis: the figures worth knowing
What’s behind Minneapolis’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Minneapolis is better than 22% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Minneapolis’ grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 19% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (5.3%) is left out: Minneapolis’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Minneapolis could be anywhere from D to C+.
Miles to work from Minneapolis
About 24% 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.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
How many people are in Minneapolis by day
On a workday 632 residents head out to work, 224 work right here, and 532 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.88 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where Minneapolis’ working residents head each day
Where Minneapolis clocks in
3% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
What the 756 jobs in Minneapolis are
756 jobs are based in Minneapolis.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Minneapolis, 2013 → 2023: 835 → 756. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Minneapolis’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Minneapolis’ commute takes about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Minneapolis workers work from home, vs 12% across Kansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 862 commuters (the 5% who work from home are left out). Across Kansas: 85% drive alone, <1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Getting around Minneapolis: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Minneapolis is more walkable than 71% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.4% across Kansas, on an EPA index of 7.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 909 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 5.3% of Minneapolis households have no vehicle (Kansas 5.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Minneapolis’ commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Minneapolis is 4,126th among 5,921 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 49 | Oxford Township KS | 2,058 | $163K | 1.9% | 2.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 56 | Lexington Township KS | 1,512 | $135K | 0.0% | 2.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 76 | Westwood KS | 1,720 | $118K | 1.9% | 2.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,124 | Lopezville TX | 2,227 | $38K | 30.4% | 8.7% | <1% | C− |
| 4,125 | Osgood IN | 1,602 | $53K | 9.7% | 5.1% | 9% | C− |
| 4,126 | Minneapolis KS | 1,907 | $58K | 10.1% | 5.3% | 26% | C− |
| 4,127 | Atlantic Beach NC | 1,408 | $70K | 15.6% | 2.9% | 13% | C− |
| 4,128 | Princeton Township IN | 1,540 | $71K | 16.8% | 2.3% | 16% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,921 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Minneapolis, the top three, the last and three more from Kansas.
Minneapolis and its neighbors
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Minneapolis workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minneapolis | – | C− | B+ | 21 min | $57,702 |
| Concord Township | under 2% | — | — | 10 min | — |
| Center Township | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Concord Township and Center Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Minneapolis’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Minneapolis: questions
What is the median household income in Minneapolis?
$57,702 (±$5,583) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,275 across Kansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Minneapolis?
10.1%, against 11.3% across Kansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Minneapolis?
21 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Kansas and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Minneapolis work?
26% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Salina (27%, 22 mi), Wichita (3%, 101 mi), Delphos (3%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Minneapolis walkable?
Minneapolis is more walkable than 71% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Minneapolis without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Minneapolis, from the people who make the trip.
More of Minneapolis
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.