Census: Burnsville Workers Come and Go in Even Numbers

Written by James Warden.

The workforce of Burnsville is well-balanced, with the number of Burnsville residents who leave the city for the workday roughly matching the number of non-residents who commute to Burnsville, according to recently released Census data.

The city's daytime population declines by about half a percent, based on estimates from the 2006-2010 American Community Survey. In all, Burnsville, a city of 60,693, has 33,172 workers who live in the city limits.

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 mean:

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

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