Data
Where the money comes from, and where it goes
Every measurable dollar that enters Kenyon in a year and every one that leaves, drawn as a flow field over the city. About $83.3M comes in, about $70.3M goes straight back out, and the average dollar is received 1.29 times in town before it leaves.
$83.3Minto Kenyon a year
$70.3Mout of Kenyon a year
1.29×times a dollar is received in town
75¢of each household dollar leaves on the first round
892residents commute out
333workers commute in
114live and work in Kenyon
447jobs inside the city, down from 561 in 2015
Wages and salariesGovernment payments to peopleState and federal aid to institutionsBusiness sales and purchasesHousehold spending and taxesCity and utility paymentsCirculating inside Kenyon
Each moving dot is a dollar. Dots enter from the direction the money actually comes from, at a rate that rises with the yearly amount (compressed, so a $50,000 payee still gets a visible trickle next to a $14 million one; the Sankey below is to scale), stop at the household, employer, store or city hall that first receives them, change hands inside town according to the measured spending shares, and leave toward wherever the money actually goes. The pale curves are the streamlines of a point source and a point sink, the same picture a wind tunnel gives for air flowing from one place to another. Hover a label for the figure and its source; the table below has every number.
The same flows, to scale
Left, the money that arrives; center, who in Kenyon receives it first; right, where it goes. Band width is dollars a year. Circulation inside town is in the table further down.
What the picture shows
Kenyon is a town that earns its living somewhere else. Of 1,033 residents with a primary job in 2023, 892 worked outside the city limits and 114 worked inside them. The wages those commuters bring home, about $40.9M a year, are the largest thing entering town, roughly 49 percent of everything this page can measure. The second largest is money that arrives without a job attached: Social Security ($4.6M), pensions, disability, veterans' benefits and the Medicare and Medicaid payments made on residents' behalf. Together the government payments come to $24.2M a year.
The reverse commute is nearly as large as it looks in the other direction. Kenyon's 447 jobs are mostly held by people who live outside the city: 333 of them, earning about $14.0M a year that leaves with them each evening. Plymold, the schools, the senior living campus and the co-op pay a great deal of money in Kenyon, and most of it is spent in Wanamingo, Faribault, the townships and beyond.
The city government is a small part of the total but the most precisely measured. Its check registers from 2024-11-22 to 2026-08-30 show $5,246,158 paid to 376 payees; placing every payee by address, 91 percent went to firms outside Kenyon and 7 percent to Kenyon businesses and people. Wholesale electricity, liquor inventory, insurance, bond payments and outside advisors account for most of it.
What is not here matters as much. Sales by Plymold and the other manufacturers to customers outside town are the money that ultimately pays for a large share of the in-commuter wages, but no public figure exists for them; the page counts their payroll as a floor and says so. Materials and profits leaving through those employers are missing for the same reason. Retail leakage is an estimate built from national household spending averages and an Economic Census estimate of what Kenyon's stores sell, because the state publishes sales-tax figures only for larger cities, and it should be read as a size, not a precise sum.
The multiplier
Every dollar in town sits with someone: a household, an employer, a store, or the city. Each of them spends it, some to another Kenyon party and some outside. Written as a table of shares, that is a Markov chain with the outside world as the absorbing state, and the question "how many times is a dollar received in town before it leaves" has an exact answer: the row sums of the fundamental matrix.
m* = (D − W)⁻¹ s steady-state dollars held at each node, for injections s
N = (I − Q)⁻¹ Q = the local-to-local spending shares
hands(n) = Σ_m N[n][m] times a dollar entering at n is received locally before it leaves
| A dollar held by | to households | to employers | to stores | to city | leaves town | hands, per entering dollar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Households | 0% | 1% | 17% | 7% | 75% | 1.29 |
| Employers and schools | 17% | 0% | 1% | 5% | 77% | 1.29 |
| Main Street stores | 8% | 0% | 0% | 3% | 88% | 1.15 |
| City and utilities | 12% | 0% | 3% | 0% | 85% | 1.20 |
Spending shares from the measured flows: outflows attributed to each node divided by the node's total outlay, with the local transfers in the next table. The last column is the row sum of the fundamental matrix. The dollar-weighted average over everything that enters is 1.29; the leading eigenvalue of the local matrix is 0.18, meaning each round of spending keeps about 18 cents of a local dollar in town.
1.29×average dollar entering Kenyonreceived this many times in town before leaving
1.29×a commuter's paycheckmost goes to rent, lenders, taxes and stores elsewhere
1.15×a dollar spent on Main Streetwages to local staff and utility bills keep part of it circulating
1.20×a dollar reaching City Hall91 percent of city checks go to payees outside town
Money that changes hands inside Kenyon
| From, to | A year |
|---|---|
| households to shops | $10.2M |
| households to city | $4.1M |
| employers to households | $3.0M |
| employers to city | $963k |
| shops to households | $826k |
| households to employers | $662k |
| city to households | $485k |
| shops to city | $327k |
| employers to shops | $150k |
| city to shops | $122k |
Property tax to the city and school district from the county tax roll (pay 2026); utility and liquor store sales from the city budget; store sales from the Economic Census estimate; wages of residents who work in town from LODES calibrated to ACS earnings; city payroll to resident staff and employer purchases at local businesses are estimates and are marked as such in the source table.
Where the city's checks went, by payee
Every payee in the council packets' check registers from 2024-11-22 to 2026-08-30, merged across spellings and placed by business address. Amounts are the register total and the same scaled to twelve months. Payees in Kenyon are marked; the rest is money that left town through City Hall, the utilities and the liquor store. Payroll runs through a separate system and is not in the registers.
| Payee | City | What for | Checks | Register total | A year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| League of MN Cities Ins Trust | St. Paul | insurance | 4 | $623,458 | $351,719 |
| Central Mun Power Agency Serv | Blue Earth | purchased power | 7 | $603,095 | $340,231 |
| Bolton & Menk Inc. | Mankato | engineering | 16 | $524,999 | $296,174 |
| First National Bank of Omaha | Omaha, NE | debt service / card | 3 | $486,951 | $274,710 |
| College City Beverage Inc. | Dundas | liquor inventory | 31 | $263,978 | $148,921 |
| Breakthru Bev MN Wine & Spir | Minneapolis | liquor inventory | 53 | $180,944 | $102,078 |
| Flom Disposal | Faribault | garbage | 18 | $162,172 | $91,488 |
| Abdo Llp | Mankato | accounting | 10 | $130,955 | $73,878 |
| Kennedy & Graven Char | Minneapolis | legal | 14 | $112,461 | $63,444 |
| L&Mconstruction Co Kenyon | Kenyon | construction | 4 | $110,180 | $62,157 |
| Midwest Fire | Luverne | fire equipment | 1 | $109,353 | $61,691 |
| Johnson Brothers Wholesale Liq | St. Paul | liquor inventory | 25 | $101,915 | $57,494 |
| MN Public Facilities Authority | St. Paul | debt service / card | 1 | $98,410 | $55,517 |
| Southern Glazers of Mn | Bloomington | liquor inventory | 32 | $87,918 | $49,599 |
| Community and Econ Dev Assoc | Chaska | economic development | 6 | $81,475 | $45,963 |
| Kenyon Fire Relief Assn Kenyon | Kenyon | pass-through | 2 | $80,264 | $45,280 |
| Ziegler Inc. | Minneapolis | equipment | 3 | $78,745 | $44,424 |
| Stan Morgan & Associates Inc. | Hopkins | equipment | 5 | $76,180 | $42,977 |
| Pearson Bros Inc. | Hanover | construction | 1 | $72,392 | $40,839 |
| Kinetic Leasing | Fargo, ND | debt service / card | 3 | $54,784 | $30,906 |
| Goodhue County Land Use Mngmt | Red Wing | government fees | 6 | $47,250 | $26,656 |
| Dodds Sue Kenyon | Kenyon | person | 7 | $37,563 | $21,191 |
| Bcm Construction Inc. | Faribault | construction | 1 | $36,841 | $20,783 |
| Maid It Clean LLC | Burnsville | other | 13 | $35,683 | $20,130 |
| Fitzgerald Excav & Truck Inc. | Goodhue | construction | 1 | $34,712 | $19,582 |
| On-Site Computers Inc. | Mankato | IT | 18 | $33,867 | $19,106 |
| Hermel Wholesale | Mankato | liquor inventory | 27 | $30,768 | $17,357 |
| Tri-State Bobcat | Burnsville | equipment | 2 | $30,380 | $17,138 |
| Abdo Financial Solutions | Mankato | accounting | 5 | $29,502 | $16,644 |
| Minn Municipal Utilities Assn | Plymouth | other | 4 | $28,788 | $16,241 |
| Central Farm Service Kenyon | Kenyon | local retail | 17 | $28,078 | $15,840 |
| Midstates Equip & Supply | Mountain Lake | supplies | 2 | $23,633 | $13,332 |
| Public Employees Ret Assoc | St. Paul | payroll/benefits | 1 | $21,812 | $12,305 |
| Jacobsen Law Firm | Northfield | legal | 13 | $21,395 | $12,070 |
| Flom Disposal Service Inc. | Faribault | garbage | 1 | $20,934 | $11,810 |
| Hawkins Inc. | Roseville | supplies | 16 | $20,647 | $11,648 |
| Motorola Solutions Inc. | Chicago, IL | equipment | 5 | $18,873 | $10,647 |
| Calibrations and Controls Inc. | Waverly | equipment | 5 | $17,655 | $9,960 |
| Hohensteins | St. Paul | liquor inventory | 24 | $16,532 | $9,326 |
| S&P Global Ratings | New York, NY | debt service / card | 1 | $15,500 | $8,744 |
| Bergankdv | St. Cloud | accounting | 1 | $15,000 | $8,462 |
| Northland Securities Trust Inc. | Minneapolis | debt service / card | 4 | $14,820 | $8,361 |
| Traxler Power & Equipment Inc. Kenyon | Kenyon | local retail | 9 | $14,092 | $7,950 |
| Olympic Pools Inc. | Shakopee | construction | 2 | $14,051 | $7,927 |
| Interstate Building Supply | Cannon Falls | supplies | 4 | $13,651 | $7,701 |
| Kenyon Ace Hardware Kenyon | Kenyon | local retail | 27 | $13,222 | $7,459 |
| Minnesota Ui Fund | St. Paul | payroll/benefits | 3 | $12,720 | $7,176 |
| Stuart C Irby Co | Burnsville | supplies | 4 | $12,045 | $6,795 |
| Boyles Frank Kenyon | Kenyon | person | 2 | $11,553 | $6,518 |
| Kenyon Municipal Utilities Kenyon | Kenyon | pass-through | 1 | $11,426 | $6,446 |
| Heggies Pizza LLC | Milaca | liquor inventory | 25 | $10,843 | $6,117 |
| Dirticus LLC Kenyon | Kenyon | economic development | 1 | $10,750 | $6,065 |
| Delta Dental of Minnesota | Minneapolis | payroll/benefits | 1 | $9,620 | $5,427 |
| Granicus | Denver, CO | software | 2 | $9,513 | $5,367 |
| Guardian Insurance - C | New York, NY | payroll/benefits | 1 | $8,773 | $4,949 |
| Selco | Rochester | software | 17 | $8,617 | $4,861 |
| Minnesota Pump Works | Dundas | equipment | 1 | $8,376 | $4,725 |
| Healy Construction Co Inc. | Faribault | construction | 2 | $8,002 | $4,514 |
| Sascs LLC | Minnesota Lake | other | 2 | $7,500 | $4,231 |
| Uc Laboratory | Janesville | other | 14 | $7,430 | $4,191 |
| Ingram Library Services | La Vergne, TN | supplies | 15 | $7,382 | $4,165 |
| Petty Cash Kenyon | Kenyon | other | 5 | $7,130 | $4,022 |
| Emergency Apparatus Maint | Lino Lakes | fire equipment | 3 | $7,079 | $3,994 |
| Buscho Enterprises LLC | Faribault | construction | 2 | $7,055 | $3,980 |
| Lehner Scott Kenyon | Kenyon | person | 4 | $6,855 | $3,867 |
| Viking Coca Cola | St. Cloud | liquor inventory | 23 | $6,804 | $3,838 |
| Minn Dept of Revenue | St. Paul | government fees | 1 | $6,713 | $3,787 |
| Minn Dept of Health | St. Paul | government fees | 2 | $6,590 | $3,718 |
| Kenyon Market Kenyon | Kenyon | local retail | 27 | $6,412 | $3,617 |
| Great Lakes Salt Company | Cleveland, OH | supplies | 1 | $6,105 | $3,444 |
| League of Minnesota Cities | St. Paul | other | 5 | $6,034 | $3,404 |
| Faribo Plumbing & Heating Inc. | Faribault | construction | 3 | $5,982 | $3,375 |
| Skyline Salt Solutions | Dubuque, IA | supplies | 1 | $5,884 | $3,319 |
| Midwest Collision Inc. | Faribault | equipment | 1 | $5,787 | $3,265 |
| Cengage Learning | Boston, MA | supplies | 22 | $5,748 | $3,242 |
| Winona Heating & Ventilating | Winona | construction | 2 | $5,681 | $3,205 |
| MN Municipal Utilities Assoc | Plymouth | other | 3 | $5,468 | $3,085 |
| K&M Heating Inc. | Faribault | construction | 1 | $5,300 | $2,990 |
| Municipal Emergency Services | Sandy Hook, CT | fire equipment | 2 | $5,131 | $2,895 |
| Gpc | Rochester | liquor inventory | 10 | $5,019 | $2,831 |
| United Systems & Software Inc. | Benton, KY | software | 2 | $4,865 | $2,745 |
| Baker & Taylor Inc. | Charlotte, NC | supplies | 11 | $4,772 | $2,692 |
| Catalis LLC | Alpharetta, GA | software | 2 | $4,604 | $2,597 |
| Falk Collision 43 | Zumbrota | equipment | 1 | $4,508 | $2,543 |
| Seykora Striping | Owatonna | construction | 2 | $4,450 | $2,510 |
| A&J Design LLC Kenyon | Kenyon | local retail | 3 | $4,408 | $2,487 |
| Boyum Tree Service | Owatonna | other | 2 | $4,400 | $2,482 |
| Quinlivan & Hughes Pa | St. Cloud | legal | 1 | $4,251 | $2,398 |
| Cannon Valley Shrine Club | Cannon Falls | other | 1 | $4,250 | $2,398 |
| Junior Library Guild | Plain City, OH | supplies | 2 | $4,083 | $2,303 |
| Cm2 Supply | St. Cloud | supplies | 1 | $4,021 | $2,268 |
| Finley & Armstrong Mn Kenyon | Kenyon | economic development | 1 | $4,000 | $2,257 |
| Kyllo Bob Kenyon | Kenyon | person | 1 | $4,000 | $2,257 |
| Sift Thrift Store Kenyon | Kenyon | economic development | 1 | $4,000 | $2,257 |
| Cannon River Winery | Cannon Falls | liquor inventory | 5 | $3,959 | $2,234 |
| Riester Refrigeration Inc. | Red Wing | equipment | 4 | $3,808 | $2,148 |
| Uline | Pleasant Prairie, WI | supplies | 5 | $3,647 | $2,057 |
| Alex Air Apparatus 2 LLC | Alexandria | fire equipment | 2 | $3,601 | $2,031 |
| Core & Main Lp | St. Louis, MO | supplies | 6 | $3,527 | $1,990 |
| Ag Partners Kenyon | Kenyon | local retail | 7 | $3,366 | $1,899 |
| Metering & Technology Solution | Burnsville | equipment | 2 | $3,329 | $1,878 |
| The Country Barn Yard | Goodhue | equipment | 1 | $3,295 | $1,859 |
| Galls LLC - Dba Unifr Unlim | Lexington, KY | supplies | 11 | $3,275 | $1,848 |
| Schumacher Excavating Inc. | Zumbrota | construction | 1 | $3,195 | $1,802 |
| Wright-Hennepin Coop Electric | Rockford | other | 16 | $3,107 | $1,753 |
| Core & Main Lp 120 | St. Louis, MO | supplies | 1 | $3,019 | $1,703 |
| Quadient | Milford, CT | equipment | 3 | $3,007 | $1,696 |
| Mvtl Laboratories Inc. | New Ulm | other | 5 | $2,882 | $1,626 |
| Apg Media of Southern MN LLC | Faribault | other | 12 | $2,806 | $1,583 |
| Teigen Paper & Supply | Stewartville | supplies | 13 | $2,760 | $1,557 |
| Crescent Investigative Services | Rochester | other | 1 | $2,728 | $1,539 |
| All Seasons Community Services Kenyon | Kenyon | pass-through | 4 | $2,717 | $1,533 |
| Dennis J Lindstrom | Kenyon | person | 2 | $2,600 | $1,467 |
| Al Martin Canopies | Kenyon | other | 1 | $2,577 | $1,454 |
| Red Bull Dist Co | Owatonna | liquor inventory | 11 | $2,562 | $1,445 |
| Temple Electric | Faribault | equipment | 4 | $2,554 | $1,441 |
| Tsbl Distributing | Anoka | equipment | 6 | $2,514 | $1,419 |
| Kenyon Area Historical Society Kenyon | Kenyon | other | 1 | $2,500 | $1,410 |
| Reichel Insulation LLC | Mankato | construction | 1 | $2,500 | $1,410 |
| Fire House Pizza | Minneapolis | liquor inventory | 18 | $2,418 | $1,364 |
| Francis Animal & Pest Control | Faribault | other | 1 | $2,362 | $1,333 |
| Advanced Business Systems | Rochester | equipment | 2 | $2,345 | $1,323 |
| Napa Parts Dept of Kenyon Kenyon | Kenyon | local retail | 17 | $2,327 | $1,313 |
| Midwest Extraction Services | Waseca | liquor inventory | 7 | $2,315 | $1,306 |
| Daniel Larkin Kenyon | Kenyon | person | 2 | $2,313 | $1,305 |
| Ron Kadrlik | Faribault | person | 5 | $2,200 | $1,241 |
| Usa Blue Book | Waukegan, IL | supplies | 4 | $2,146 | $1,211 |
| Reliable Heating & Cooling | Zumbrota | construction | 1 | $2,135 | $1,204 |
| Kaseya Us LLC | Miami, FL | software | 1 | $2,094 | $1,181 |
| Hillyard Inc. | St. Joseph, MO | supplies | 2 | $2,040 | $1,151 |
| The Gillette Group | Rochester | liquor inventory | 4 | $2,012 | $1,135 |
| Sxse MN Brewing Co | Pine Island | liquor inventory | 12 | $2,002 | $1,129 |
| Bob The Bug Man | Rochester | other | 17 | $2,000 | $1,128 |
| Se MN Emergency Medical Serv | Rochester | other | 1 | $2,000 | $1,128 |
| Nesseth Properties Kenyon | Kenyon | economic development | 1 | $2,000 | $1,128 |
| Billy Dyrdahl | Kenyon | person | 1 | $2,000 | $1,128 |
| Artisan Beer Company | Mendota Heights | liquor inventory | 1 | $1,975 | $1,114 |
| Robert'S Retail & Repair Kenyon | Kenyon | local retail | 11 | $1,969 | $1,111 |
| Kenyon Ag Services LLC Kenyon | Kenyon | local retail | 1 | $1,958 | $1,104 |
| Tnemec Company Inc. | Kansas City, MO | supplies | 3 | $1,925 | $1,086 |
| Kielmeyer Construction Inc. | Nerstrand | construction | 3 | $1,915 | $1,080 |
| Kittelson Plumb & Heating Inc. | Wanamingo | construction | 2 | $1,910 | $1,078 |
| Esri | Redlands, CA | software | 2 | $1,876 | $1,058 |
| Jason'S Sewer & Excavating Ser | unplaced | 13 | $1,835 | $1,035 | |
| Breakthru Bev MN Wine & Spir 119 | unplaced | 1 | $1,823 | $1,029 | |
| Jacobsen Law Firm I | unplaced | 1 | $1,795 | $1,013 | |
| Isg | unplaced | 1 | $1,750 | $987 | |
| Banyon Data Systems | unplaced | 2 | $1,730 | $976 | |
| Cemstone | unplaced | 1 | $1,700 | $959 | |
| Itron Inc. | unplaced | 1 | $1,676 | $946 | |
| Shamrock Group | unplaced | 7 | $1,672 | $943 | |
| Rain and Hail LLC | unplaced | 2 | $1,648 | $930 | |
| Jacobsen Law Firm - I | unplaced | 1 | $1,600 | $903 | |
| Central Mcgowan Inc. | unplaced | 12 | $1,584 | $894 | |
| Hermel Wholesale 64 | unplaced | 1 | $1,579 | $891 | |
| Altec Industries Inc. I | unplaced | 1 | $1,575 | $889 | |
| Minn Pollution Control Agency | unplaced | 4 | $1,521 | $858 | |
| Lost Highway LLC | unplaced | 1 | $1,500 | $846 | |
| Nothing But Hemp | unplaced | 1 | $1,471 | $830 | |
| Kenyon Car Wash | unplaced | 2 | $1,450 | $818 | |
| Mpca | unplaced | 1 | $1,450 | $818 | |
| Minn Fire Service Cert Board | unplaced | 2 | $1,416 | $799 | |
| Flanders Kelly | unplaced | 5 | $1,383 | $780 | |
| Appels Service Inc. | unplaced | 2 | $1,372 | $774 | |
| Canon Financial Services Inc. | unplaced | 17 | $1,366 | $771 | |
| Johnson Brothers Liquor Co | unplaced | 1 | $1,364 | $769 | |
| Ncpers Minnesota | unplaced | 11 | $1,360 | $767 | |
| Minn Department of Health | unplaced | 2 | $1,318 | $744 | |
| The Penworthy Company | unplaced | 4 | $1,313 | $741 | |
| Reliable Heating & Cooling 109 | unplaced | 1 | $1,219 | $688 | |
| Home City Ice Co | unplaced | 5 | $1,203 | $678 | |
| Corporate Recognition | unplaced | 1 | $1,200 | $677 | |
| Ancom Technical Center | unplaced | 1 | $1,189 | $671 | |
| Hernke'S Rock and Lime | unplaced | 1 | $1,187 | $670 | |
| Mes Service Company LLC | unplaced | 2 | $1,186 | $669 | |
| Minn Municipal Beverage Assoc | unplaced | 2 | $1,160 | $654 | |
| Rochester Sand & Gravel | unplaced | 1 | $1,098 | $619 | |
| D&S Banner Sign & Print | unplaced | 4 | $1,066 | $601 | |
| I State Truck Center | unplaced | 1 | $1,065 | $601 | |
| Hermel Wholesale 74 | unplaced | 1 | $1,064 | $600 | |
| Regents of The University of Mn | unplaced | 3 | $1,052 | $594 | |
| Gsgtp | unplaced | 1 | $1,050 | $592 | |
| Mosaic Ford of Zumbrota | unplaced | 1 | $1,045 | $589 | |
| Quadient I | unplaced | 1 | $1,000 | $564 | |
| Iia Lifting Services Inc. | unplaced | 1 | $958 | $540 | |
| Kenyon Ace Hardware I | unplaced | 1 | $954 | $538 | |
| Lexvold Construction LLC | unplaced | 1 | $945 | $533 | |
| D & S Banner Sign & Print | unplaced | 5 | $929 | $524 | |
| Mvtlllaboratories Inc. | unplaced | 1 | $924 | $521 | |
| Matt Henning Tech | unplaced | 2 | $915 | $516 | |
| Bachmans Inc. | unplaced | 2 | $907 | $512 | |
| R&K Electric | unplaced | 4 | $903 | $510 | |
| Skog Tim | unplaced | 3 | $900 | $508 | |
| Heather Kerr | unplaced | 3 | $900 | $508 | |
| Bowen Scott | unplaced | 1 | $900 | $508 | |
| Streichers Inc. | unplaced | 2 | $877 | $495 | |
| Border States Ind Inc. | unplaced | 3 | $854 | $482 | |
| Grd | unplaced | 2 | $852 | $481 | |
| Drawing Smiles Caricatures | unplaced | 1 | $850 | $480 | |
| Chart Pool Usa Inc. | unplaced | 1 | $844 | $476 | |
| Minn Municipal Beverage Assoc I | unplaced | 1 | $800 | $451 | |
| Doug Henke | unplaced | 1 | $763 | $430 | |
| Hach Company | unplaced | 1 | $730 | $412 | |
| Apg Media of Southern MN LLC 102 | unplaced | 1 | $726 | $410 | |
| Spectrum Systems LLC | unplaced | 1 | $719 | $406 | |
| Baker & Taylor Inc. 68 | unplaced | 1 | $718 | $405 | |
| Mortensen John | unplaced | 2 | $700 | $395 | |
| Mckesson Medical | unplaced | 1 | $694 | $391 | |
| Border States Ind Inc. 48 I | unplaced | 1 | $686 | $387 | |
| Kim Helgeson | unplaced | 2 | $669 | $378 | |
| Mallery Chris | unplaced | 2 | $665 | $375 | |
| Alexander Chrissy | unplaced | 3 | $663 | $374 | |
| -Heggies Pizza LLC | unplaced | 1 | $650 | $367 | |
| Tonies Us Inc. | unplaced | 3 | $636 | $359 | |
| Jeffrey Sjoblom | unplaced | 2 | $628 | $354 | |
| Bureau of Crim Apprehension | unplaced | 1 | $600 | $338 | |
| R&Lllc | unplaced | 1 | $600 | $338 | |
| Brian Homeier 108 | unplaced | 1 | $600 | $338 | |
| Macqueen Equipment Inc. | unplaced | 2 | $585 | $330 | |
| Eric Lundin Malp | unplaced | 1 | $585 | $330 | |
| Lundin Eric | unplaced | 1 | $585 | $330 | |
| Jeffery J & Ann L Traxler 46 | unplaced | 1 | $580 | $327 | |
| Visa | unplaced | 1 | $578 | $326 | |
| Stericycle Inc. | unplaced | 4 | $571 | $322 | |
| Internal Revenue Service | unplaced | 1 | $563 | $318 | |
| Nothing But Hemp LLC | unplaced | 2 | $546 | $308 | |
| Indian Island Winery | unplaced | 2 | $526 | $297 | |
| Hohensteins 44 | unplaced | 1 | $525 | $296 | |
| Armani Tucker | unplaced | 1 | $517 | $292 | |
| Actives11 Inc. | unplaced | 1 | $516 | $291 | |
| Earl F Anderson | unplaced | 2 | $514 | $290 | |
| Dakota Cty Tech College | unplaced | 1 | $500 | $282 | |
| Nova Southeastern University | unplaced | 1 | $500 | $282 | |
| Rochester Comm & Tech College | unplaced | 1 | $500 | $282 | |
| Justin Alan Enterainment | unplaced | 1 | $500 | $282 | |
| 24 Seven Events & Marketing Inc. | unplaced | 1 | $500 | $282 | |
| Iv Play LLC | unplaced | 1 | $500 | $282 | |
| Doty-Mccorkell Jessie | unplaced | 1 | $500 | $282 | |
| Jager Karla | unplaced | 1 | $500 | $282 | |
| Larish Carl | unplaced | 1 | $500 | $282 | |
| Brian Homeier | unplaced | 1 | $488 | $275 | |
| Altec Industries Inc. | unplaced | 1 | $479 | $271 | |
| Axon Enterprise Inc. | unplaced | 1 | $470 | $265 | |
| Optum Financial | unplaced | 4 | $458 | $258 | |
| Core & Mainlp | unplaced | 1 | $457 | $258 | |
| Cintas Corporation | unplaced | 9 | $454 | $256 | |
| League of Minnesota Cities F | unplaced | 1 | $450 | $254 | |
| By All Means | unplaced | 2 | $445 | $251 | |
| Quam Sara | unplaced | 1 | $439 | $248 | |
| Zep Sales and Service | unplaced | 1 | $437 | $246 | |
| Nygaard Service & Repair | unplaced | 1 | $434 | $245 | |
| Kenyon Leader | unplaced | 3 | $423 | $238 | |
| Menards | unplaced | 3 | $413 | $233 | |
| L &Mconstruction Co | unplaced | 1 | $408 | $230 | |
| Confitrek | unplaced | 1 | $408 | $230 | |
| Kenyon-Wanamingo Schools | unplaced | 1 | $403 | $227 | |
| Olmsted County Finance | unplaced | 2 | $400 | $226 | |
| Greg The Great Magic | unplaced | 1 | $400 | $226 | |
| Mid-America Backflow Preventer | unplaced | 2 | $400 | $226 | |
| Ostertag Anna | unplaced | 1 | $375 | $212 | |
| Big State Industrial Supply | unplaced | 3 | $370 | $209 | |
| Heggies Pizza LLC J | unplaced | 1 | $369 | $208 | |
| MN Licensed Beverage Assoc | unplaced | 1 | $360 | $203 | |
| Tasc | unplaced | 7 | $359 | $202 | |
| Toshiba Amer Bus Solutions | unplaced | 1 | $349 | $197 | |
| Kinney Creek Brewery | unplaced | 4 | $347 | $196 | |
| Angie'S Restaurant | unplaced | 1 | $345 | $195 | |
| Fastenal Co J | unplaced | 1 | $337 | $190 | |
| Jason'S Sewer & Excavating Ser 70 | unplaced | 1 | $325 | $183 | |
| Mojeske John Ill | unplaced | 1 | $323 | $182 | |
| Community Safety Net | unplaced | 1 | $320 | $181 | |
| Mayo Clinic Health System | unplaced | 3 | $312 | $176 | |
| Minn Occupational Health | unplaced | 2 | $310 | $175 | |
| Mckesson Medical I | unplaced | 1 | $306 | $173 | |
| Guardian Fleet Safety | unplaced | 1 | $305 | $172 | |
| Amped Auto and Audio | unplaced | 1 | $300 | $169 | |
| Joel Rechtzigel | unplaced | 1 | $300 | $169 | |
| Dan Englund | unplaced | 1 | $300 | $169 | |
| Englund Misty | unplaced | 1 | $300 | $169 | |
| Premium Tap Cleaning | unplaced | 4 | $288 | $162 | |
| Loffler | unplaced | 12 | $285 | $161 | |
| Brian Mork | unplaced | 1 | $260 | $147 | |
| Kenyon Market 71 | unplaced | 1 | $260 | $147 | |
| Ck Johnson Productions | unplaced | 1 | $250 | $141 | |
| Onsite Medical Service Inc. | unplaced | 1 | $250 | $141 | |
| Olson Claire | unplaced | 1 | $250 | $141 | |
| Usablue Book | unplaced | 1 | $247 | $139 | |
| Scholastic | unplaced | 1 | $244 | $138 | |
| Dvs Renewal | unplaced | 2 | $243 | $137 | |
| Folds of Honor | unplaced | 1 | $240 | $135 | |
| Michelle Otte | unplaced | 4 | $228 | $129 | |
| Grimsrud Publishing Inc. | unplaced | 5 | $220 | $124 | |
| Vanessa Bartel | unplaced | 1 | $216 | $122 | |
| Kenyon Market 66 | unplaced | 1 | $207 | $117 | |
| Nate Craig | unplaced | 2 | $205 | $116 | |
| Mjua | unplaced | 1 | $205 | $116 | |
| Mllarp | unplaced | 1 | $205 | $116 | |
| Bjorkstrand Randall and Lynn | unplaced | 1 | $205 | $116 | |
| Kenyon Ace Hardware 57 | unplaced | 1 | $204 | $115 | |
| Five Star Telecom Inc. | unplaced | 3 | $200 | $113 | |
| Fischer Sara | unplaced | 1 | $190 | $107 | |
| Brunner Matthew & Elana | unplaced | 1 | $190 | $107 | |
| Performance Draft Co Inc. | unplaced | 3 | $184 | $104 | |
| Zep Sales & Service | unplaced | 1 | $184 | $104 | |
| Bauer Sewer and Mechanical LLC | unplaced | 1 | $180 | $102 | |
| The Hometown Messenger | unplaced | 1 | $179 | $101 | |
| Minnesota Dept of Commerce | unplaced | 2 | $175 | $99 | |
| Franklin D Peterson Estate | unplaced | 1 | $175 | $98 | |
| Voegele Stephanie | unplaced | 1 | $173 | $98 | |
| Cannon River Winery I | unplaced | 1 | $168 | $95 | |
| Berquam James | unplaced | 1 | $154 | $87 | |
| John East | unplaced | 1 | $150 | $85 | |
| Roger Lee | unplaced | 1 | $150 | $85 | |
| Diane Barrett | unplaced | 1 | $150 | $85 | |
| Goodhue County 4H | unplaced | 1 | $150 | $85 | |
| Scott Or Lori Quamme | unplaced | 1 | $150 | $85 | |
| South X Southeast Brewing Company | unplaced | 1 | $148 | $83 | |
| Cm2 Supply I | unplaced | 1 | $144 | $81 | |
| Rdo Equipment Co | unplaced | 2 | $137 | $78 | |
| Gopher State One-Call | unplaced | 4 | $134 | $75 | |
| Ncpers Minnesota H | unplaced | 1 | $128 | $72 | |
| Whitney Nass | unplaced | 1 | $128 | $72 | |
| Jeremy Chilson | unplaced | 1 | $127 | $72 | |
| Certified Languages International | unplaced | 1 | $122 | $69 | |
| Cna Surety | unplaced | 2 | $119 | $67 | |
| Locators & Supplies Inc. | unplaced | 1 | $118 | $67 | |
| Illinois Casualty Co | unplaced | 1 | $111 | $63 | |
| Aflac | unplaced | 1 | $108 | $61 | |
| Central Mcgowan Inc. - 139156 | unplaced | 1 | $101 | $57 | |
| Semlm | unplaced | 2 | $100 | $56 | |
| Minn Dept of Public Safety | unplaced | 1 | $100 | $56 | |
| Wayne Ehrich | unplaced | 1 | $100 | $56 | |
| Canon Financial Services Inc. I | unplaced | 1 | $96 | $54 | |
| Ncpers Minnesota 64 | unplaced | 1 | $96 | $54 | |
| Homeier Josephine | unplaced | 1 | $93 | $52 | |
| Graber Jesse | unplaced | 1 | $92 | $52 | |
| Kenyon Ace Hardware 105 | unplaced | 1 | $92 | $52 | |
| Carlton Georgia | unplaced | 1 | $91 | $51 | |
| Kieffer Todd | unplaced | 1 | $90 | $51 | |
| American Water Works Assoc | unplaced | 1 | $85 | $48 | |
| Rodriguez Breanna | unplaced | 1 | $84 | $48 | |
| Hans Amy | unplaced | 1 | $83 | $47 | |
| Nieves-Dierich Andre | unplaced | 1 | $83 | $47 | |
| Fitch Austin | unplaced | 1 | $83 | $47 | |
| Avesis Inc. | unplaced | 1 | $82 | $46 | |
| Canon Financial Services Inc. 107 | unplaced | 1 | $78 | $44 | |
| Froyum Enterprises LLC | unplaced | 1 | $75 | $42 | |
| Kenyon Snowdrifters | unplaced | 1 | $75 | $42 | |
| Discount Paper Products Inc. | unplaced | 1 | $74 | $42 | |
| Jim Malloy | unplaced | 1 | $74 | $42 | |
| Rosario Tolentino Perez | unplaced | 1 | $70 | $40 | |
| Dodge Center Chiropractic | unplaced | 2 | $66 | $37 | |
| David Burow | unplaced | 1 | $64 | $36 | |
| Sward Jeana | unplaced | 1 | $62 | $35 | |
| Curts Truck & Diesel Serv Inc. | unplaced | 1 | $57 | $32 | |
| Holli Gudknecht | unplaced | 1 | $54 | $30 | |
| Mora Barajas Fancisco | unplaced | 1 | $52 | $30 | |
| Triangle Machine & Radiator In | unplaced | 1 | $52 | $29 | |
| City of Kenyon | unplaced | 1 | $50 | $28 | |
| Amber Reher | unplaced | 1 | $50 | $28 | |
| Amber Reher 47 | unplaced | 1 | $50 | $28 | |
| Star Energy Services | unplaced | 1 | $49 | $28 | |
| Security State Bank of Kenyon | unplaced | 1 | $45 | $25 | |
| Minnesota Mayors Association | unplaced | 1 | $30 | $17 | |
| Tatge Jewelry 117 | unplaced | 1 | $30 | $17 | |
| Tatge Jewelry | unplaced | 1 | $30 | $17 | |
| Marcia Hovey | unplaced | 1 | $28 | $16 | |
| Barbara & Bill Bonde | unplaced | 1 | $25 | $14 | |
| Anderson Stella | unplaced | 1 | $21 | $12 | |
| Johnson Hardware Co | unplaced | 1 | $16 | $9 | |
| Misty Englund | unplaced | 1 | $16 | $9 | |
| Loffler I | unplaced | 1 | $12 | $7 | |
| D &S Banner Sign & Print | unplaced | 1 | $10 | $6 | |
| Fastenal Co | unplaced | 1 | $4 | $3 | |
| Minn Chiefs of Police Assoc | unplaced | 1 | $0 | $0 | |
| Lieberman Companies Inc. | unplaced | 1 | $0 | $0 |
376 payees. 24 in Kenyon received $373,084 (7 percent); payees elsewhere received $4,750,806. Placement confidence is high for all but nineteen small payees; the nine placed at low confidence total about $62,000. Source: council/checks_all.json parsed from the packet registers; flow/raw/vendor_locations.json.
How it has moved
Every flow, with its method
Measured means a published total for Kenyon itself. Derived means a Kenyon figure built from a county or block-level source with a stated rule. Estimate means a national average was applied to Kenyon households; those are the numbers to argue with.
| Flow | A year | Where | How it is measured | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wages earned in the Twin Cities metro | +$14.2M | 310 residents work in Hennepin, Dakota, Ramsey, Scott, Washington and Anoka counties | Jobs held by Kenyon residents at workplaces in this area (LODES 2023), times the resident wage implied by ACS aggregate earnings across the three LODES earnings bands. | LEHD LODES8 origin-destination, primary jobs, Minnesota 2015-2023; ACS 2019-23 table B19061 (aggregate earnings, Kenyon city) derived |
| Medicare and Medicaid, paid to providers on residents' behalf | +$10.7M | Federal and state, in kind | Goodhue County medical benefits (BEA CAINC35 line 2200, 2022: Medicare, Medicaid and military medical) times Kenyon's share of county population. This money never touches a Kenyon bank account: it enters for residents and leaves the same day to clinics and hospitals outside town, so it appears again as an outflow. | BEA regional accounts derived |
| Sales by Kenyon manufacturers, farms, trucking and care providers to buyers outside town | +$8.7M | Plymold (employee-owned, headquartered in Kenyon), Ag Partners, senior living, truckers, contractors | A floor, not a total: the payroll of the 259 private jobs in Kenyon that are not in retail, food, finance or other local services (LODES workplace file 2023: 146 in manufacturing, 22 in health care, 33 in transportation, 13 in construction), at the average private wage in ZIP 55946 (County Business Patterns 2023: $18.6M payroll over 551 employees). Materials, rent and profit funded by those sales are not counted. | LEHD LODES8 WAC 2023; Census County Business Patterns 2023, ZIP 55946 derived |
| Wages earned elsewhere in Goodhue County | +$7.3M | 159 residents work in Zumbrota, Cannon Falls, Red Wing, Wanamingo and rural Goodhue County | Jobs held by Kenyon residents at workplaces in this area (LODES 2023), times the resident wage implied by ACS aggregate earnings across the three LODES earnings bands. | LEHD LODES8 origin-destination, primary jobs, Minnesota 2015-2023; ACS 2019-23 table B19061 (aggregate earnings, Kenyon city) derived |
| State and federal aid to Kenyon-Wanamingo schools, Kenyon share | +$6.3M | Minnesota Department of Education | State revenue ($7.53M) plus federal revenue ($0.65M) of Independent School District 2172 in fiscal 2023 (Census Annual Survey of School System Finances), times the share of the district's 86 staff who work in Kenyon (66 education jobs in the city, LODES; the elementary school is in Wanamingo). The district's local levy is counted separately as property tax. District payroll and benefits were $9.3M. | https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/school-finances/tables/2023/secondary-education-finance/elsec23.xlsx derived |
| Wages earned in Rochester and Olmsted County | +$5.0M | 110 residents work in Olmsted County | Jobs held by Kenyon residents at workplaces in this area (LODES 2023), times the resident wage implied by ACS aggregate earnings across the three LODES earnings bands. | LEHD LODES8 origin-destination, primary jobs, Minnesota 2015-2023; ACS 2019-23 table B19061 (aggregate earnings, Kenyon city) derived |
| Wages earned in Northfield and Dundas | +$5.0M | 110 residents work in the Northfield half of Rice County | Jobs held by Kenyon residents at workplaces in this area (LODES 2023), times the resident wage implied by ACS aggregate earnings across the three LODES earnings bands. | LEHD LODES8 origin-destination, primary jobs, Minnesota 2015-2023; ACS 2019-23 table B19061 (aggregate earnings, Kenyon city) derived |
| Social Security | +$4.6M | Federal | Aggregate Social Security income of Kenyon households, ACS 2019-23 table B19065 (214 households report it). A floor: the ACS is known to under-report Social Security, and Goodhue County's $266M of benefits in 2023 (SSA) scaled by Kenyon's population share would be $10.1M. | U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year 2023, Kenyon city; SSA OASDI beneficiaries by county 2023 measured |
| Wages earned in Faribault | +$4.1M | 89 residents work in the Faribault half of Rice County | Jobs held by Kenyon residents at workplaces in this area (LODES 2023), times the resident wage implied by ACS aggregate earnings across the three LODES earnings bands. | LEHD LODES8 origin-destination, primary jobs, Minnesota 2015-2023; ACS 2019-23 table B19061 (aggregate earnings, Kenyon city) derived |
| Income of households that moved in | +$3.1M | Mostly Olmsted, Dakota, Wabasha, Hennepin and Rice counties | Adjusted gross income of tax filers who moved into Goodhue County in 2022-23 (1,999 people, IRS county migration) times Kenyon's share of county population. | IRS Statistics of Income, county-to-county migration 2022-2023 derived |
| Pensions and retirement income | +$3.0M | Pension funds, PERA, TRA | Aggregate retirement income (pensions, annuities, IRA withdrawals) of Kenyon households, ACS table B19069. Almost all of it is paid by funds outside town. | ACS 5-year 2023, Kenyon city measured |
| Wages earned elsewhere | +$2.7M | 59 residents work in other counties and states | Jobs held by Kenyon residents at workplaces in this area (LODES 2023), times the resident wage implied by ACS aggregate earnings across the three LODES earnings bands. | LEHD LODES8 origin-destination, primary jobs, Minnesota 2015-2023; ACS 2019-23 table B19061 (aggregate earnings, Kenyon city) derived |
| Spending in Kenyon stores by in-commuters and passers-by | +$2.5M | In-commuters, Highway 56 and 60 traffic | One fifth of estimated local store sales ($12.7M): fuel, lunches and groceries bought by the 333 people who commute into Kenyon and by through traffic on Highways 56 and 60. The share is an assumption. | LODES 2023; Economic Census 2022 estimate |
| SSI, public assistance, SNAP, veterans' and unemployment benefits | +$1.8M | Federal and state | Aggregate Supplemental Security Income (ACS B19066, $0.51M) and cash public assistance (B19067, $0.05M) for Kenyon households, plus Goodhue County SNAP ($0.17M), veterans' benefits ($0.80M) and unemployment compensation ($0.24M) from BEA CAINC35 2022, each times Kenyon's 3.8 percent share of county population. ACS counts 48 Kenyon households on SNAP and 112 veterans. | ACS 5-year 2023; BEA regional accounts derived |
| Wages earned in Owatonna and Steele County | +$1.3M | 28 residents work in Steele County | Jobs held by Kenyon residents at workplaces in this area (LODES 2023), times the resident wage implied by ACS aggregate earnings across the three LODES earnings bands. | LEHD LODES8 origin-destination, primary jobs, Minnesota 2015-2023; ACS 2019-23 table B19061 (aggregate earnings, Kenyon city) derived |
| Wages earned in Dodge County | +$1.2M | 27 residents work in Dodge Center, West Concord, Kasson | Jobs held by Kenyon residents at workplaces in this area (LODES 2023), times the resident wage implied by ACS aggregate earnings across the three LODES earnings bands. | LEHD LODES8 origin-destination, primary jobs, Minnesota 2015-2023; ACS 2019-23 table B19061 (aggregate earnings, Kenyon city) derived |
| Interest, dividends and rent | +$1.0M | Banks, funds, tenants | Aggregate interest, dividend and net rental income of Kenyon households, ACS table B19064. | ACS 5-year 2023, Kenyon city measured |
| Local Government Aid to the city | +$667k | Minnesota Department of Revenue | Certified Local Government Aid to the City of Kenyon for 2026: 2020 $569,436, 2021 $581,429, 2022 $586,000, 2023 $595,450, 2024 $664,265, 2025 $665,115, 2026 $666,716, 2027 $668,954. The 2025 audit shows $757,332 of intergovernmental revenue in the general fund, of which LGA is the bulk. | https://www.revenue.state.mn.us/local-government-aid-lga-certification-cities measured |
| Total in | +$83.3M | |||
| Medical care bought outside town | −$15.8M | Mayo, Allina, Northfield Hospital | The Medicare and Medicaid pass-through ($10.7M) plus households' own health spending and premiums (BLS CEX 2024 rural healthcare average, $7,029, times 732 households: $5.1M). Kenyon has clinics but no hospital; the nearest are Northfield, Faribault, Zumbrota and Rochester. | BEA CAINC35; BLS CEX estimate |
| Federal income and payroll taxes | −$10.1M | U.S. Treasury | Employee FICA at 7.65 percent of aggregate earnings plus federal income tax at Goodhue County's 2022 ratio of tax liability to adjusted gross income (11.9 percent, IRS county data) applied to Kenyon's aggregate household income. | IRS Statistics of Income county data 2022; ACS B19025, B19061 derived |
| Goods bought by Kenyon stores from wholesalers | −$8.6M | Wholesalers, fuel distributors | Estimated sales of Kenyon stores ($12.7M, see the shopping flow) times a cost-of-goods share of 68 percent, the Census Annual Retail Trade Survey gross-margin complement for grocery, fuel and general merchandise stores. | Economic Census 2022; Census ARTS estimate |
| Groceries, fuel, restaurants, clothing and goods bought in other towns | −$8.1M | Northfield, Faribault, Owatonna, Rochester | Household demand for the categories a local store can sell (BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey 2024, rural averages: food at home, food away, alcohol, apparel, gasoline, vehicles, entertainment, personal care, housekeeping supplies and furnishings, times 732 households: $22.4M) minus estimated sales of Kenyon stores ($12.7M: 40 retail and 12 food-service jobs in the city valued at Goodhue County receipts per employee from the 2022 Economic Census, $295k for retail excluding vehicle and building-material dealers). The state publishes sales-tax figures only for larger cities, so the local figure is an estimate. The remainder is bought in Northfield, Faribault, Owatonna, Rochester and online; the online share is shown separately. | BLS CEX 2024; Census Economic Census 2022, Goodhue County; LODES 2023 estimate |
| Wages paid to workers who live elsewhere in Goodhue County | −$5.4M | 128 in-commuters, mostly from the townships around town, Wanamingo and Zumbrota | Jobs in Kenyon held by people who live outside the city (LODES 2023) times the wage implied by the LODES earnings bands, calibrated as for residents. | LEHD LODES8 origin-destination, primary jobs, Minnesota 2015-2023; ACS 2019-23 table B19061 (aggregate earnings, Kenyon city) derived |
| Mortgage principal and interest | −$4.3M | Lenders and servicers, mostly outside town | 388 owner households with a mortgage times the median monthly owner cost with a mortgage ($1,486, ACS B25088) times twelve, taking 62 percent as principal and interest after taxes, insurance and utilities (the national split in the ACS owner-cost definition). Security State Bank of Kenyon holds some local mortgages, so part of this stays; the share is not public. | ACS 2019-23 B25081, B25088 estimate |
| Wages paid to workers who live elsewhere | −$3.3M | 78 in-commuters from the metro, Wabasha, Wisconsin and elsewhere | Jobs in Kenyon held by people who live outside the city (LODES 2023) times the wage implied by the LODES earnings bands, calibrated as for residents. | LEHD LODES8 origin-destination, primary jobs, Minnesota 2015-2023; ACS 2019-23 table B19061 (aggregate earnings, Kenyon city) derived |
| Wages paid to workers who live in Rice County | −$3.2M | 75 in-commuters from Faribault, Northfield and rural Rice County | Jobs in Kenyon held by people who live outside the city (LODES 2023) times the wage implied by the LODES earnings bands, calibrated as for residents. | LEHD LODES8 origin-destination, primary jobs, Minnesota 2015-2023; ACS 2019-23 table B19061 (aggregate earnings, Kenyon city) derived |
| Income of households that moved away | −$3.0M | Mostly Dakota, Olmsted, Hennepin and Wabasha counties | Adjusted gross income of tax filers who left Goodhue County in 2022-23 (1,925 people) times Kenyon's share of county population. | IRS county-to-county migration 2022-2023 derived |
| Wages paid to workers who live in Dodge and Steele counties | −$2.2M | 52 in-commuters from West Concord, Owatonna, Dodge Center | Jobs in Kenyon held by people who live outside the city (LODES 2023) times the wage implied by the LODES earnings bands, calibrated as for residents. | LEHD LODES8 origin-destination, primary jobs, Minnesota 2015-2023; ACS 2019-23 table B19061 (aggregate earnings, Kenyon city) derived |
| Online purchases | −$1.6M | Amazon, Walmart.com and the rest | The out-of-town shopping estimate times the national e-commerce share of retail sales (16 percent). | Census Bureau, Quarterly Retail E-Commerce Sales estimate |
| CMPAS wholesale power | −$973k | Blue Earth | Purchased power and generation expense of the electric fund in the 2025 audit ($973,414; $1,199,317 in 2024), paid to Central Municipal Power Agency/Services. The check registers show only $340,231 a year because most of it is paid electronically. | City financial statements 2018-2025 measured |
| Property tax to Goodhue County, the state and special districts | −$780k | Red Wing, St. Paul | County share ($0.72M) plus state general tax and special-district levies ($56k) of pay-2026 property tax on every parcel inside the city limits, summed from the county tax roll. | Goodhue County property tax statements, pay 2026, 1,015 parcels measured |
| Rent to landlords outside town | −$676k | Apartment owners | 132 renter households times median gross rent ($854) times twelve, with half assumed to go to owners who live outside Kenyon (the largest complexes are owned by companies in Faribault and elsewhere; the split is not public). | ACS 2019-23 B25003, B25064; county tax roll owner addresses estimate |
| All other payees outside Kenyon | −$480k | Statewide | The remaining 333 payees outside Kenyon in the check registers: PERA, Hawkins, Kinetic Leasing, Tri-State Bobcat, Hermel, Motorola, Delta Dental, Granicus, S&P, BerganKDV, Northland Securities, Jacobsen Law, Catalis and the rest; every one is listed by name in the payee table below. City of Kenyon check registers 2024-11-22 to 2026-08-30 (1,353 checks, $5.25M), each payee placed by its business address; totals scaled to twelve months. | City check registers measured |
| League of Minnesota Cities Insurance Trust | −$352k | St. Paul | Property, liability and workers' compensation premiums. City of Kenyon check registers 2024-11-22 to 2026-08-30 (1,353 checks, $5.25M), each payee placed by its business address; totals scaled to twelve months. | City check registers measured |
| Bolton & Menk | −$296k | Mankato | Engineering for streets, water, sewer and the 2025 bond projects. City of Kenyon check registers 2024-11-22 to 2026-08-30 (1,353 checks, $5.25M), each payee placed by its business address; totals scaled to twelve months. | City check registers measured |
| First National Bank of Omaha, bond payments | −$275k | Omaha | Principal and interest to bondholders through the paying agent, plus the city credit card, which is settled through the same bank. City of Kenyon check registers 2024-11-22 to 2026-08-30 (1,353 checks, $5.25M), each payee placed by its business address; totals scaled to twelve months. | City check registers measured |
| Breakthru, Johnson Brothers, Southern Glazer's, Hohensteins | −$221k | Minneapolis, St. Paul, Bloomington | Beer, wine and spirits for the municipal liquor store. City of Kenyon check registers 2024-11-22 to 2026-08-30 (1,353 checks, $5.25M), each payee placed by its business address; totals scaled to twelve months. | City check registers measured |
| College City Beverage | −$149k | Dundas | Beer for the municipal liquor store. City of Kenyon check registers 2024-11-22 to 2026-08-30 (1,353 checks, $5.25M), each payee placed by its business address; totals scaled to twelve months. | City check registers measured |
| Flom Disposal | −$103k | Faribault | Garbage and recycling collection. City of Kenyon check registers 2024-11-22 to 2026-08-30 (1,353 checks, $5.25M), each payee placed by its business address; totals scaled to twelve months. | City check registers measured |
| Abdo | −$91k | Mankato and Edina | Accounting, payroll and human-resources services. City of Kenyon check registers 2024-11-22 to 2026-08-30 (1,353 checks, $5.25M), each payee placed by its business address; totals scaled to twelve months. | City check registers measured |
| Kennedy & Graven | −$63k | Minneapolis | City attorney. City of Kenyon check registers 2024-11-22 to 2026-08-30 (1,353 checks, $5.25M), each payee placed by its business address; totals scaled to twelve months. | City check registers measured |
| Midwest Fire | −$62k | Luverne | Fire apparatus. City of Kenyon check registers 2024-11-22 to 2026-08-30 (1,353 checks, $5.25M), each payee placed by its business address; totals scaled to twelve months. | City check registers measured |
| Minnesota Public Facilities Authority | −$56k | St. Paul | Water and sewer loan payments to the state's infrastructure lender. City of Kenyon check registers 2024-11-22 to 2026-08-30 (1,353 checks, $5.25M), each payee placed by its business address; totals scaled to twelve months. | City check registers measured |
| CEDA | −$46k | Chaska | Contract economic-development staff for the EDA. City of Kenyon check registers 2024-11-22 to 2026-08-30 (1,353 checks, $5.25M), each payee placed by its business address; totals scaled to twelve months. | City check registers measured |
| Ziegler | −$44k | Minneapolis | Caterpillar equipment. City of Kenyon check registers 2024-11-22 to 2026-08-30 (1,353 checks, $5.25M), each payee placed by its business address; totals scaled to twelve months. | City check registers measured |
| Stan Morgan & Associates | −$43k | Winona | Construction. City of Kenyon check registers 2024-11-22 to 2026-08-30 (1,353 checks, $5.25M), each payee placed by its business address; totals scaled to twelve months. | City check registers measured |
| Pearson Bros. | −$41k | Hanover | Street seal-coating. City of Kenyon check registers 2024-11-22 to 2026-08-30 (1,353 checks, $5.25M), each payee placed by its business address; totals scaled to twelve months. | City check registers measured |
| On-Site Computers | −$19k | Owatonna | Information technology support. City of Kenyon check registers 2024-11-22 to 2026-08-30 (1,353 checks, $5.25M), each payee placed by its business address; totals scaled to twelve months. | City check registers measured |
| Total out | −$70.3M |
Not measured
- Minnesota income tax. the Department of Revenue's county income-tax tables were not reachable; at the state's average effective rate it would be several million dollars a year.
- Materials, rent and profit leaving through Kenyon employers. no public figure; the employer inflow is a payroll floor for the same reason.
Method
Wages. LODES reports jobs by home block and work block in three earnings bands. Every block inside the city limits was pulled from the Minnesota crosswalk (62 blocks). The lower two bands were valued at their midpoints and the top band solved so that residents' jobs reproduce the ACS aggregate earnings of Kenyon households ($45.6M), which gives $60,508 a year for the top band. The same band values price the jobs held by in-commuters. Destinations are grouped by county and, inside Rice County, split between the Northfield and Faribault halves by workplace city. The commuting year control redraws the wage flows for 2015, 2019, 2022, 2023.
Government payments. Social Security, SSI, public assistance, retirement income and investment income are ACS aggregates for the city. Medicare and Medicaid, SNAP, veterans' and unemployment benefits are Bureau of Economic Analysis county totals times Kenyon's 3.8 percent share of Goodhue County's population. Movers' income is IRS county-to-county migration scaled the same way.
City money. Every check in the council packets from 2024-11-22 to 2026-08-30 was parsed and its payee placed by business address; the totals were scaled to twelve months. Property tax is summed parcel by parcel from the county tax roll and split among city, county, school district and state.
Household spending. Demand for goods a local store can sell is the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey Midwest average per household times Kenyon's 732 households; local sales are Kenyon's retail and food-service jobs valued at Goodhue County receipts per employee from the 2022 Economic Census, since the state publishes sales-tax figures only for larger cities; the difference is spent elsewhere, and the national e-commerce share of that is drawn as online. Mortgage and rent use ACS owner costs and gross rent with stated splits.
The chain. Each node's outlay is its outside flows plus its local transfers; dividing by the total gives the spending shares. The fundamental matrix is inverted directly. Because the model is linear, the multiplier does not depend on the amounts injected, only on the shares, which is why it can be read off a single year.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau LEHD LODES8 (2015, 2019, 2022, 2023) and ACS five-year 2019-2023; Bureau of Economic Analysis CAINC4 and CAINC35; IRS Statistics of Income county data and migration files; Goodhue County property tax roll; City of Kenyon council packets and audits; Minnesota Department of Revenue certified LGA; Census Annual Survey of School System Finances and Economic Census 2022; City of Kenyon financial statements 2018-2025; EIA-861; SSA and Minnesota DCYF county tables; BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey 2024; Census quarterly e-commerce report. Built 2026-09-17.
Questions
How much money comes into Kenyon each year?
About $83.3M a year in the flows this page can measure: wages earned outside town by residents ($40.9M), Social Security, pensions and other government payments to people ($24.2M), aid to the schools and the city, and sales by Kenyon employers to buyers outside town.
Where does most of it go?
Out again. Of every dollar a household receives, about 75 cents leave on the first spending round, to employers and stores in other towns, lenders, the county and the state. The measured outflows total $70.3M a year.
What is the local multiplier?
The average dollar entering Kenyon is received 1.29 times by someone in town before it leaves. A dollar that arrives at a Main Street store is received 1.15 times; one that arrives as an out-of-town paycheck, 1.29 times.
Where do Kenyon residents work?
Of 1,033 employed residents in 2023, 114 work inside the city; 892 commute out, most to Rice County (Northfield and Faribault), the Twin Cities, Rochester and elsewhere in Goodhue County (LODES 2023).
Who holds the jobs in Kenyon?
Of 447 jobs inside the city, 333 are held by people who live outside it. Their wages, about $14.0M a year, leave with them.