The eight-county region of Southeast Minnesota (“Southeast Minnesota” or the “Region”), composed of Dodge, Fillmore, Goodhue, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha, and Winona counties, encompasses 77 municipalities, with more than 368,000 residents and 190,000 employees.
The Southeast Minnesota planning region includes a total of 11 counties and two Workforce Development Boards (WDBs). In sum, Southeast Minnesota was home to 507,073 people in 2017, comprising 9.1 percent of the state’s total population. That made it the fourth largest of the six planning regions in the state. The largest counties in the region are Olmsted, Rice and Winona, which make up over...
