MASON CITY & CLEAR LAKE
- 2013 North Iowa Corridor Laborshed Analysis Executive Summary
- 2013 North Iowa Corridor Full Laborshed Analysis Report
NORTH CENTRAL IOWA
POPULATION
Mason City and Clear Lake boast populations of 28,000 and 8,000, respectively, and draw a labor pool from 15 surrounding counties, creating one of the state’s largest laborshed regions at more than 140,000.
LABORSHED ANALYSIS
A laborshed is defined as the area or region from which an employment center draws its commuting workers. To determine the approximate boundaries of the laborshed area, local employers supplied the ZIP code listings of where each of their employees reside.
This laborshed analysis addresses underemployment, the availability and willingness of current and prospective employees to change employment within the workforce, current and desired occupations, wages, hours worked, and distance willing to commute to work.