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Cities in Minnesota by employed residents

Minneapolis, MN had the highest employed residents of 43 cities in 2017, at 239,966. Austin, MN had the lowest, at 12,213. The median was 23,863. Source: the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Highest239,966Minneapolis, MN
Lowest12,213Austin, MN
Median23,86343 cities

All cities, 2017

Minneapolis, MN: 239,966 personsMinneapolis, MN239,966St. Paul, MN: 163,324 personsSt. Paul, MN163,324Rochester, MN: 62,008 personsRochester, MN62,008Bloomington, MN: 49,079 personsBloomington, MN49,079Brooklyn Park, MN: 45,656 personsBrooklyn Park, MN45,656Duluth, MN: 45,563 personsDuluth, MN45,563Plymouth, MN: 43,213 personsPlymouth, MN43,213Eagan, MN: 39,232 personsEagan, MN39,232Woodbury, MN: 38,402 personsWoodbury, MN38,402Maple Grove, MN: 38,074 personsMaple Grove, MN38,074St. Cloud, MN: 36,245 personsSt. Cloud, MN36,245Lakeville, MN: 35,099 personsLakeville, MN35,099Blaine, MN: 34,903 personsBlaine, MN34,903Coon Rapids, MN: 34,558 personsCoon Rapids, MN34,558Eden Prairie, MN: 34,254 personsEden Prairie, MN34,254Burnsville, MN: 33,997 personsBurnsville, MN33,997St. Louis Park, MN: 30,757 personsSt. Louis Park, MN30,757Minnetonka, MN: 28,034 personsMinnetonka, MN28,034Apple Valley, MN: 27,748 personsApple Valley, MN27,748Edina, MN: 25,630 personsEdina, MN25,630Mankato, MN: 24,879 personsMankato, MN24,879Shakopee, MN: 23,863 personsShakopee, MN23,863Moorhead, MN: 23,289 personsMoorhead, MN23,289Maplewood, MN: 21,624 personsMaplewood, MN21,624Richfield, MN: 20,512 personsRichfield, MN20,512Cottage Grove, MN: 19,982 personsCottage Grove, MN19,982Inver Grove Heights, MN: 19,650 personsInver Grove Heights, MN19,650Roseville, MN: 18,199 personsRoseville, MN18,199Savage, MN: 17,874 personsSavage, MN17,874Andover, MN: 17,457 personsAndover, MN17,457Brooklyn Center, MN: 16,935 personsBrooklyn Center, MN16,935Chaska, MN: 15,453 personsChaska, MN15,453Fridley, MN: 15,327 personsFridley, MN15,327Winona, MN: 15,232 personsWinona, MN15,232Prior Lake, MN: 14,877 personsPrior Lake, MN14,877Oakdale, MN: 14,609 personsOakdale, MN14,609Ramsey, MN: 13,589 personsRamsey, MN13,589Champlin, MN: 13,299 personsChamplin, MN13,299Shoreview, MN: 13,044 personsShoreview, MN13,044Chanhassen, MN: 13,024 personsChanhassen, MN13,024Owatonna, MN: 12,999 personsOwatonna, MN12,999White Bear Lake, MN: 12,352 personsWhite Bear Lake, MN12,352Austin, MN: 12,213 personsAustin, MN12,213Minneapolis, MN: 239,966 personsMinneapolis, MN239,966St. Paul, MN: 163,324 personsSt. Paul, MN163,324Rochester, MN: 62,008 personsRochester, MN62,008Bloomington, MN: 49,079 personsBloomington, MN49,079Brooklyn Park, MN: 45,656 personsBrooklyn Park, MN45,656Duluth, MN: 45,563 personsDuluth, MN45,563Plymouth, MN: 43,213 personsPlymouth, MN43,213Eagan, MN: 39,232 personsEagan, MN39,232Woodbury, MN: 38,402 personsWoodbury, MN38,402Maple Grove, MN: 38,074 personsMaple Grove, MN38,074St. Cloud, MN: 36,245 personsSt. Cloud, MN36,245Lakeville, MN: 35,099 personsLakeville, MN35,099Blaine, MN: 34,903 personsBlaine, MN34,903Coon Rapids, MN: 34,558 personsCoon Rapids, MN34,558Eden Prairie, MN: 34,254 personsEden Prairie, MN34,254Burnsville, MN: 33,997 personsBurnsville, MN33,997St. Louis Park, MN: 30,757 personsSt. Louis Park, MN30,757Minnetonka, MN: 28,034 personsMinnetonka, MN28,034Apple Valley, MN: 27,748 personsApple Valley, MN27,748Edina, MN: 25,630 personsEdina, MN25,630Mankato, MN: 24,879 personsMankato, MN24,879Shakopee, MN: 23,863 personsShakopee, MN23,863Moorhead, MN: 23,289 personsMoorhead, MN23,289Maplewood, MN: 21,624 personsMaplewood, MN21,624Richfield, MN: 20,512 personsRichfield, MN20,512Cottage Grove, MN: 19,982 personsCottage Grove, MN19,982Inver Grove Heights, MN: 19,650 personsInver Grove Heights, MN19,650Roseville, MN: 18,199 personsRoseville, MN18,199Savage, MN: 17,874 personsSavage, MN17,874Andover, MN: 17,457 personsAndover, MN17,457Brooklyn Center, MN: 16,935 personsBrooklyn Center, MN16,935Chaska, MN: 15,453 personsChaska, MN15,453Fridley, MN: 15,327 personsFridley, MN15,327Winona, MN: 15,232 personsWinona, MN15,232Prior Lake, MN: 14,877 personsPrior Lake, MN14,877Oakdale, MN: 14,609 personsOakdale, MN14,609Ramsey, MN: 13,589 personsRamsey, MN13,589Champlin, MN: 13,299 personsChamplin, MN13,299Shoreview, MN: 13,044 personsShoreview, MN13,044Chanhassen, MN: 13,024 personsChanhassen, MN13,024Owatonna, MN: 12,999 personsOwatonna, MN12,999White Bear Lake, MN: 12,352 personsWhite Bear Lake, MN12,352Austin, MN: 12,213 personsAustin, MN12,213
persons. Source: BLS, Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: employment (measure 05), annual average. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

RankCities2017
persons		Change on 2016
1Minneapolis, MN239,966+2.4%
2St. Paul, MN163,324+1.6%
3Rochester, MN62,008+2.3%
4Bloomington, MN49,079+1.1%
5Brooklyn Park, MN45,656+1.5%
6Duluth, MN45,563+0.9%
7Plymouth, MN43,213+1.9%
8Eagan, MN39,232+1.4%
9Woodbury, MN38,402+2.4%
10Maple Grove, MN38,074+2.6%
11St. Cloud, MN36,245+0.9%
12Lakeville, MN35,099+3.8%
13Blaine, MN34,903+2.6%
14Coon Rapids, MN34,558+1.1%
15Eden Prairie, MN34,254+1.2%
16Burnsville, MN33,997+1.2%
17St. Louis Park, MN30,757+1%
18Minnetonka, MN28,034+1.8%
19Apple Valley, MN27,748+1.9%
20Edina, MN25,630+1.6%
21Mankato, MN24,879+1.7%
22Shakopee, MN23,863+1.6%
23Moorhead, MN23,289+0.6%
24Maplewood, MN21,624+2%
25Richfield, MN20,512+1%
26Cottage Grove, MN19,982+3.1%
27Inver Grove Heights, MN19,650+1.8%
28Roseville, MN18,199+2.1%
29Savage, MN17,874+2.8%
30Andover, MN17,457+2.1%
31Brooklyn Center, MN16,935+0.9%
32Chaska, MN15,453+2.4%
33Fridley, MN15,327+1.9%
34Winona, MN15,232-0.8%
35Prior Lake, MN14,877+2.9%
36Oakdale, MN14,609+1%
37Ramsey, MN13,589+2.1%
38Champlin, MN13,299+3.8%
39Shoreview, MN13,044+1.2%
40Chanhassen, MN13,024+1.1%
41Owatonna, MN12,999-3%
42White Bear Lake, MN12,352+1.1%
43Austin, MN12,213+0.4%

Other periods

About this ranking

Residents who did any work for pay or profit in the reference week, or were temporarily absent from a job, annual average.

More on how it is measured
  • People aged 16 and over by place of residence, from the Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
  • Active-duty military personnel and people living in institutions are excluded.

United States cities only for now. Counts people where they live, whatever the place of work, and someone with two jobs counts once. BLS estimates cities by splitting county estimates with Census Bureau employment and population data and unemployment insurance claims, so city figures are less precise than state ones. BLS publishes cities of 25,000 or more, and smaller cities in New England.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the cities are compared on one definition. 2 cities with data in other periods have no value for 2017 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: employment (measure 05), annual average. https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU15-19. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (2026). Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: employment (measure 05), annual average (Cities in Minnesota by employed residents, 2017) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU15-19

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Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: employment (measure 05), annual average, Cities in Minnesota by employed residents, 2017. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 30 Sept. 2026, https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU15-19. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/employed-residents/minnesota-cities?period=2017. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

Chicago (author-date)

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. 2026. Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: employment (measure 05), annual average. Cities in Minnesota by employed residents, 2017. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU15-19. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/employed-residents/minnesota-cities?period=2017.

Harvard

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (2026) Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: employment (measure 05), annual average, Cities in Minnesota by employed residents, 2017 [Dataset]. Available at: https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU15-19, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/employed-residents/minnesota-cities?period=2017 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

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Which city has the highest employed residents?

Minneapolis, MN, with 239,966 in 2017, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Which city has the lowest employed residents?

Austin, MN, with 12,213 in 2017.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: employment (measure 05), annual average. Retrieved 2026-10-12. 2 cities have no value for 2017 and are not ranked.

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