Work & commute · Laketown

Work & commute in Laketown, MN

Most working residents leave Laketown for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Minneapolis (11%), Eden Prairie (11%) and Bloomington (6%). Half commute less than 18 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

13 of 1,028 working residents

Typical commute

18 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

26%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,015 Laketown residents head out of town to work, 13 work right here, and 535 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Laketown.

1,015live here, work elsewhere

13live and work here

535work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Laketown goes to work

Minneapolis24.2 mi away

11%117

Eden Prairie13.3 mi away

11%114

Bloomington20.3 mi away

6%63

Edina18.5 mi away

6%60

Minnetonka14.8 mi away

5%55

Waconia3 mi away

5%49

Chaska6 mi away

5%49

Chanhassen8 mi away

5%47

St. Paul31.6 mi away

3%33

Plymouth18.3 mi away

3%31

Everywhere elseother towns and states

40%410

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

How far

How far Laketown commutes

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

22%

57%

17%

22%Under 10 mi

57%10–24 mi

17%25–50 mi

4%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Laketown is a commuter town

0.53jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.53 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Laketown are

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

Jobs based in Laketown

548 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)30%

Trade, transport & utilities12%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less28%

$1,251–$3,333 a month17%

Over $3,333 a month55%

Jobs Laketown residents hold

1,028 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month11%

Over $3,333 a month77%

+81%

Jobs based in Laketown, 2013 → 2023: 302 → 548. 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.