Work & commute · St. Lawrence

Work & commute in St. Lawrence, MN

Most working residents leave St. Lawrence for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Belle Plaine (12%), Eden Prairie (11%) and Shakopee (10%). Half commute less than 18 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

4 of 251 working residents

Typical commute

18 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

30 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 247 St. Lawrence residents head out of town to work, 4 work right here, and 199 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Lawrence.

247live here, work elsewhere

4live and work here

199work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Lawrence goes to work

Belle Plaine4.2 mi away

12%29

Eden Prairie17.8 mi away

11%27

Shakopee13.5 mi away

10%24

Jordan2.7 mi away

5%12

Prior Lake13.4 mi away

4%10

Bloomington22.2 mi away

4%10

Chanhassen14.8 mi away

4%9

St. Paul35.4 mi away

3%8

Minneapolis29.9 mi away

3%8

Chaska12 mi away

3%7

Everywhere elseother towns and states

43%107

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

How far

How far St. Lawrence commutes

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

22%

53%

22%

22%Under 10 mi

53%10–24 mi

22%25–50 mi

3%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Lawrence is balanced between jobs and homes

0.81jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.81 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Lawrence are

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

Jobs based in St. Lawrence

203 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less29%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month51%

Jobs St. Lawrence residents hold

251 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)26%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)53%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month16%

Over $3,333 a month69%

+45%

Jobs based in St. Lawrence, 2013 → 2023: 140 → 203. 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.