Work & commute · Hastings

Work & commute in Hastings, MN

About one in 4 of Hastings’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are St. Paul (8%), Minneapolis (7%) and Eagan (5%). Half commute less than 18 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

23%

2,516 of 10,859 working residents

Typical commute

18 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

13%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 8,343 Hastings residents head out of town to work, 2,516 work right here, and 4,913 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Hastings.

8,343live here, work elsewhere

2,516live and work here

4,913work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Hastings goes to work

Hastings (in town)right here

23%2,516

St. Paul19.4 mi away

8%895

Minneapolis25.8 mi away

7%748

Eagan16.2 mi away

5%516

Cottage Grove6.4 mi away

4%430

Rosemount10.6 mi away

3%310

Bloomington23.6 mi away

3%290

Edina27.1 mi away

2%261

Woodbury12.5 mi away

2%206

Inver Grove Heights12.1 mi away

2%201

Everywhere elseother towns and states

41%4,486

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

How far

How far Hastings commutes

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

32%

43%

20%

32%Under 10 mi

43%10–24 mi

20%25–50 mi

5%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Hastings is a commuter town

0.68jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.68 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Hastings are

7,429 jobs are based in Hastings. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Hastings’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Hastings

7,429 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month60%

Jobs Hastings residents hold

10,859 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month18%

Over $3,333 a month67%

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Jobs based in Hastings, 2013 → 2023: 7,435 → 7,429. 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.