Maple Grove Sees Population Dip during Work Day

(Patch Field Editor James Warden wrote this article.)

Maple Grove sees a population exodus during the workday as residents commute to jobs in communities around the metro, according to recently released Census data.

Use the map above to compare how Minnesota cities fared. The map is colored according to each city’s “employment-residence ratio”—which compares the number of workers in a community to the number of workers who live there. 

Ratios greater than 1.0 mean more people work in a community than it has workers living there. A community with a ranking of 1.19, for example, would have 19 percent more workers working there. By contrast, communities with ratios less than 1.0 send more residents to other communities to work than they receive.

The colors correspond to these ratios as described above:

• Red: .23 to .5
• Yellow: .5 to 1
• Blue: 1 to 1.5
• Green: 1.5 to 5

The map includes only communities with either 2,500 workers living there or 2,500 workers who go there to work.