Photo: Myotus · CC BY 4.0Spring Lake Park’s household incomes are higher than in 69% of U.S. towns
For a town this walkable, transit is thin: about 7.1 trips an hour at the evening peak near the typical resident, next to 26.2 in Minneapolis. Below the poverty line: 11.0% of residents; Minnesota has 9.3%. Jobs and income earn Spring Lake Park A−; getting around on foot earns it A.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Spring Lake Park, in brief
The figures behind Spring Lake Park’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Spring Lake Park is better than 76% of U.S. towns, #131 of 273 in Minnesota. Job access by car holds Spring Lake Park’s grade up (ahead of 96% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down. It also does well on household income and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Spring Lake Park could be anywhere from B to A.
How a workday changes Spring Lake Park
On a workday 3,100 residents head out to work, 86 work right here, and 2,733 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.
16% of working residents work in Minneapolis
Where Spring Lake Park clocks in
16% of workers
6% 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 work there is in Spring Lake Park: 2,819 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Spring Lake Park, 2013 → 2023: 3,139 → 2,819. 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 Spring Lake Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Spring Lake Park, about 21 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Spring Lake Park workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,170 commuters (the 15% who work from home are left out). Across Minnesota: 84% drive alone, 2% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Where in the region Spring Lake Park works
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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Spring Lake Park
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Spring Lake Park is more walkable than 91% of U.S. towns, #18 of 273 in Minnesota. Both inputs place Spring Lake Park near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,718 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 75% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 14% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 7.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 89% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 9.7% of Spring Lake Park households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Spring Lake Park’s commuters take a bus or train.
Spring Lake Park is 915th of 3,164 U.S. towns of 5,000 to 9,600 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Elko New Market MN | 5,300 | $152K | 1.1% | 0.0% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 20 | Albertville MN | 8,544 | $133K | 1.1% | 0.2% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 43 | Credit River MN | 5,644 | $143K | 2.1% | 1.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 913 | Delanco Township NJ | 5,010 | $79K | 3.3% | 5.5% | 3% | A− |
| 914 | Pendleton NY | 7,120 | $114K | 9.4% | 3.8% | 6% | A− |
| 915 | Spring Lake Park MN | 7,127 | $91K | 11.0% | 3.5% | 3% | A− |
| 916 | Tuttle OK | 8,708 | $104K | 5.3% | 4.8% | 10% | A− |
| 917 | Tuscarawas Township OH | 5,844 | $87K | 10.0% | 2.1% | 5% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,164 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Spring Lake Park, the top three, the last and three more from Minnesota.
13% of Spring Lake Park works in a town next door
The biggest share goes to Fridley (8%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Spring Lake Park workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Lake Park | – | A− | A | 21 min | $90,753 |
| Fridley | 8% | B− | A | 23 min | $77,680 |
| Mounds View | under 3% | A− | A− | 23 min | $90,009 |
| Blaine | 5% | A− | B | 25 min | $106,801 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Spring Lake Park’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 Spring Lake Park: questions
What is the median household income in Spring Lake Park?
$90,753 (±$11,091) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Spring Lake Park?
11.0%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Spring Lake Park?
21 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Spring Lake Park work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Minneapolis (16%, 11 mi), Fridley (8%, 2 mi), St. Paul (6%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Spring Lake Park walkable?
Spring Lake Park is more walkable than 91% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 12.5 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Spring Lake Park without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. 14% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Spring Lake Park, from the people who make the trip.
More of Spring Lake Park
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.