Editing Fridley, Minnesota (section)

==Economy==
Fridley is home to the Operational (formerly World)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.medtronic.com/about-us/company-profile/locations/index.htm?loc=MDTHomeRefresh_B_InPage_Footer_About1 |title=Medtronic: About Us |access-date=January 31, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304032720/http://www.medtronic.com/about-us/company-profile/locations/index.htm?loc=MDTHomeRefresh_B_InPage_Footer_About1 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Headquarters of Ireland-based [[Medtronic|Medtronic plc]]. Medtronic also has a substantial Rice Creek business campus. Other major employers in Fridley include [[BAE Systems]] (formerly [[United Defense]]), [[Cummins]], Unity Medical Center, part of the Allina Healthcare system, part of the Mercy Hospitals, [[Minco Products, Inc]], and Kurt Manufacturing Company. Fridley is also home to a [[Target Stores]] retail distribution center. [[Magnum Research]], a company that produces the [[Desert Eagle]] firearm, had its headquarters in Fridley until 2010.

Minneapolis and Saint Paul draw their municipal water supplies from the Mississippi River at Fridley, which is upstream.<ref name="MPLSH2O">Roper, Eric - [https://www.startribune.com/do-the-twin-cities-really-get-their-drinking-water-from-the-mississippi-river/572506491/ How do cities make Mississippi River water safe to drink?] Star Tribune, October 9, 2020</ref> The City of Minneapolis Waterworks plant and Fire Department training facility are in Fridley.<ref name="MPLSH2O" />

In the 2000 census data, there were 11,542 more jobs in Fridley than the number of workers age 16 and over.<ref name="FRIDLEYECON">[http://www.ci.fridley.mn.us/DocumentCenter/Home/View/661 Chapter 4, Economic and Redevelopment Plan] - City of Fridley. Retrieved June 12, 2017</ref> But most Fridley residents work outside Fridley, most commonly in other cities in Hennepin County and in Minneapolis. Only 21% of the 15,221 Fridley residents in the workforce in 2000 worked in Fridley. Fridley saw a decline in the number of jobs from 26,763 in 2000 to 23,845 in 2006, according to the city economic plan report.<ref name="FRIDLEYECON" />

===Largest employers===
According to the City's 2021 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ci.fridley.mn.us/DocumentCenter/View/8004/2021-Annual-Comprehensive-Financial-Report-PDF?bidId= |title=City of Fridley 2021 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report|format=[[Portable Document Format|PDF]]|page=191|date=March 23, 2023}}</ref> the largest employers in the city are:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! #
! Employer
! # of Employees
|-
| 1
|[[Medtronic]]
|3,366
|-
|2
|[[Target Corporation|Target]]
|1,301
|-
|3
|[[Allina Health|Unity Medical Center]]
|1,215
|-
|4
|[[Cummins|Cummins Power (Onan)]]
|1,099
|-
|5
|[[Minco Products]] 
|592
|-
|6
|Fridley Public Schools ISD #14
|564
|-
|7
|[[BAE Systems Inc.|BAE Systems]]
|550
|-
|8
|Kurt Manufacturing 
|275
|-
|9
|Taylor Communications 
|250
|-
|10
|[[Walmart]]
|212
|}