Work & commute · St. Louis Park

Work & commute in St. Louis Park, MN

Most working residents leave St. Louis Park for work: only 11% work in town. The top destinations are Minneapolis (26%), Eden Prairie (6%) and Minnetonka (5%). Half commute less than 6 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

11%

2,690 of 25,191 working residents

Typical commute

6 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

28%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 22,501 St. Louis Park residents head out of town to work, 2,690 work right here, and 37,534 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Louis Park.

22,501live here, work elsewhere

2,690live and work here

37,534work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Louis Park goes to work

Minneapolis4.8 mi away

26%6,539

St. Louis Park (in town)right here

11%2,690

Eden Prairie8.2 mi away

6%1,435

Minnetonka4.7 mi away

5%1,357

Edina4 mi away

5%1,324

Bloomington8.6 mi away

5%1,271

St. Paul12.8 mi away

5%1,229

Golden Valley2.9 mi away

4%1,075

Plymouth7 mi away

4%987

Maple Grove12.6 mi away

2%385

Everywhere elseother towns and states

27%6,899

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

How far

How far St. Louis Park commutes

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

75%

20%

75%Under 10 mi

20%10–24 mi

1%25–50 mi

4%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Louis Park is a job hub

1.60jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Louis Park are

40,224 jobs are based in St. Louis Park. Here is what they are, next to the jobs St. Louis Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in St. Louis Park

40,224 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)75%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month16%

Over $3,333 a month74%

Jobs St. Louis Park residents hold

25,191 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)74%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month15%

Over $3,333 a month75%

+17%

Jobs based in St. Louis Park, 2013 → 2023: 34,297 → 40,224. 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.