Work & commute · St. Paul

Work & commute in St. Paul, KS

Most working residents leave St. Paul for work: only 11% work in town. The top destinations are Chanute (23%), Parsons (14%) and Pittsburg (6%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

11%

29 of 268 working residents

Typical commute

19 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

28 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

12%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 239 St. Paul residents head out of town to work, 29 work right here, and 270 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Paul.

239live here, work elsewhere

29live and work here

270work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Paul goes to work

Chanute19 mi away

23%61

Parsons13.7 mi away

14%38

St. Paul (in town)right here

11%29

Pittsburg27.1 mi away

6%17

Erie5.2 mi away

6%16

Iola30.9 mi away

3%8

Coffeyville42.6 mi away

2%6

Tioga19.4 mi away

2%5

Chetopa33.5 mi away

1%4

Girard18 mi away

1%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

30%80

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far St. Paul commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

19%

47%

19%

15%

19%Under 10 mi

47%10–24 mi

19%25–50 mi

15%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Paul is balanced between jobs and homes

1.12jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.12 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Paul are

299 jobs are based in St. Paul. Here is what they are, next to the jobs St. Paul’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in St. Paul

299 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)51%

Trade, transport & utilities5%

Services (health, schools, offices…)44%

$1,250 a month or less24%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month40%

Jobs St. Paul residents hold

268 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)22%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month56%

−10%

Jobs based in St. Paul, 2013 → 2023: 332 → 299. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.