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Updated 05/22/2015 4 Location Total Labor Force (# of people residing in the location who are employed or seeking employment)* Number of people residing in location that are employed in Clay County Percentage of location’s labor force employed in Clay County Cass County 87,024 4,646 5% -- Fargo 62,307 3,501 5% -- West Fargo 14,841 777 5% Clay County 34,039 7,705 23% -- Moorhead 22,208 4,770 21% -- Dilworth 1,917 526 27% Sources: Research 360; Census Bureau Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics LED OnTheMap data tool; Job Service ND, MNDEED LAUS. * 2011 Labor Force Data used to match with 2011 Census Geographic Data. From this information it is clear that thousands of workers commute to jobs in the FM MSA on a daily basis. However, workers from counties in North Dakota may not commute daily and may be engaged in untraditional work arrangements. According to Job Service North Dakota, some potential explanations include:  College students who maintain parents’ address and work part-time while attending college.  Work for companies with multiple worksites, of which Cass County is the largest. These companies sometimes do not break out their employment in all the specific counties in which they operate.  Wholesale trade reps whose territory lies outside the headquarter county.  Transportation workers – airline or railroad – with a home in Burleigh or Ward County and a Cass County duty station.  Truck drivers with routes traveling from Burleigh or Ward County (for example) to Cass County daily (mail, retail, dairy, grocery) that live at either end of the route.  Telecommuters in IT, customer service and sales. Bakken Crude-Oil Train Movement through Cass County The highest levels of crude oil-by-rail traffic in North Dakota pass through Cass County. In a May 2014 report to the North Dakota Department of Emergency Services, BNSF estimated 30-56 trains containing 1 million or more gallons of Bakken crude are transported through Cass County per week. Many of the trains are more than one mile long and transport over 3 million gallons of crude. BNSF hauls approximately 75% of the oil that leaves North Dakota by train. 70% of Bakken oil is shipped via rail.