Work & commute · St. Paul Park

Work & commute in St. Paul Park, MN

Most working residents leave St. Paul Park for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are St. Paul (15%), Cottage Grove (10%) and Minneapolis (8%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

103 of 2,826 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

21 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

21%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 2,723 St. Paul Park residents head out of town to work, 103 work right here, and 1,201 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Paul Park.

2,723live here, work elsewhere

103live and work here

1,201work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Paul Park goes to work

St. Paul9.5 mi away

15%438

Cottage Grove4.2 mi away

10%282

Minneapolis16.1 mi away

8%221

Woodbury6 mi away

5%155

Eagan8.4 mi away

5%141

St. Paul Park (in town)right here

4%103

Bloomington15.7 mi away

3%94

Edina18.3 mi away

3%81

Roseville14.7 mi away

2%69

Hastings9.9 mi away

2%64

Everywhere elseother towns and states

42%1,178

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

How far

How far St. Paul Park commutes

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

45%

44%

45%Under 10 mi

44%10–24 mi

6%25–50 mi

4%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Paul Park is a commuter town

0.46jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Paul Park are

1,304 jobs are based in St. Paul Park. Here is what they are, next to the jobs St. Paul Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in St. Paul Park

1,304 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)49%

Trade, transport & utilities4%

Services (health, schools, offices…)48%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month9%

Over $3,333 a month79%

Jobs St. Paul Park residents hold

2,826 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month68%

+22%

Jobs based in St. Paul Park, 2013 → 2023: 1,067 → 1,304. 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.