Work & commute · Mendota Heights

Work & commute in Mendota Heights, MN

Most working residents leave Mendota Heights for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are St. Paul (21%), Minneapolis (17%) and Eagan (6%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

303 of 5,190 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

30%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 4,887 Mendota Heights residents head out of town to work, 303 work right here, and 11,450 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mendota Heights.

4,887live here, work elsewhere

303live and work here

11,450work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mendota Heights goes to work

St. Paul5.1 mi away

21%1,066

Minneapolis8.8 mi away

17%896

Eagan4.6 mi away

6%315

Mendota Heights (in town)right here

6%303

Bloomington9.5 mi away

5%259

Edina11.1 mi away

4%185

Eden Prairie16 mi away

3%138

St. Louis Park12.3 mi away

2%114

Inver Grove Heights5 mi away

2%93

West St. Paul2.9 mi away

2%89

Everywhere elseother towns and states

33%1,732

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

How far

How far Mendota Heights commutes

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

63%

30%

63%Under 10 mi

30%10–24 mi

2%25–50 mi

5%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mendota Heights is a job hub

2.26jobs per working resident

A job hub

2.3 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Mendota Heights are

11,753 jobs are based in Mendota Heights. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Mendota Heights’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Mendota Heights

11,753 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less8%

$1,251–$3,333 a month16%

Over $3,333 a month76%

Jobs Mendota Heights residents hold

5,190 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)74%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month14%

Over $3,333 a month72%

+16%

Jobs based in Mendota Heights, 2013 → 2023: 10,122 → 11,753. 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.