Work & commute · Blooming Prairie

Work & commute in Blooming Prairie, MN

Most working residents leave Blooming Prairie for work: only 17% work in town. The top destinations are Owatonna (26%), Rochester (8%) and Austin (5%). Half commute less than 18 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

17%

162 of 937 working residents

Typical commute

18 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

11%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 775 Blooming Prairie residents head out of town to work, 162 work right here, and 552 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Blooming Prairie.

775live here, work elsewhere

162live and work here

552work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Blooming Prairie goes to work

Owatonna17.8 mi away

26%243

Blooming Prairie (in town)right here

17%162

Rochester30.4 mi away

8%77

Austin14.1 mi away

5%51

Ellendale12.1 mi away

3%32

Albert Lea21.4 mi away

3%25

Faribault31.8 mi away

3%24

Hayfield10.5 mi away

2%15

Dodge Center15 mi away

2%15

Minneapolis76.4 mi away

1%11

Everywhere elseother towns and states

30%282

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

How far

How far Blooming Prairie commutes

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

19%

49%

16%

15%

19%Under 10 mi

49%10–24 mi

16%25–50 mi

15%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Blooming Prairie is balanced between jobs and homes

0.76jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.76 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Blooming Prairie are

714 jobs are based in Blooming Prairie. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Blooming Prairie’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Blooming Prairie

714 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)22%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less26%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month47%

Jobs Blooming Prairie residents hold

937 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)28%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)53%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month62%

−6%

Jobs based in Blooming Prairie, 2013 → 2023: 758 → 714. 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.