Work & commute · Oak Park Heights

Work & commute in Oak Park Heights, MN

Most working residents leave Oak Park Heights for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are St. Paul (12%), Minneapolis (10%) and Stillwater (10%). Half commute less than 17 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

142 of 1,977 working residents

Typical commute

17 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

24 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

17%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,835 Oak Park Heights residents head out of town to work, 142 work right here, and 4,612 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Oak Park Heights.

1,835live here, work elsewhere

142live and work here

4,612work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Oak Park Heights goes to work

St. Paul15.5 mi away

12%233

Minneapolis22.9 mi away

10%198

Stillwater2 mi away

10%193

Oak Park Heights (in town)right here

7%142

Bayport2 mi away

5%96

Woodbury10.4 mi away

3%57

Bloomington28.4 mi away

3%56

Edina28.6 mi away

3%50

Maplewood10.8 mi away

2%39

Oakdale8.1 mi away

2%34

Everywhere elseother towns and states

44%879

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

How far

How far Oak Park Heights commutes

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

31%

44%

20%

31%Under 10 mi

44%10–24 mi

20%25–50 mi

5%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Oak Park Heights is a job hub

2.40jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Oak Park Heights are

4,754 jobs are based in Oak Park Heights. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Oak Park Heights’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Oak Park Heights

4,754 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)6%

Trade, transport & utilities39%

Services (health, schools, offices…)54%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month63%

Jobs Oak Park Heights residents hold

1,977 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month18%

Over $3,333 a month67%

+26%

Jobs based in Oak Park Heights, 2013 → 2023: 3,788 → 4,754. 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.