Work & commute · St. Wendel

Work & commute in St. Wendel, MN

Most working residents leave St. Wendel for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are St. Cloud (33%), Sartell (7%) and Waite Park (7%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

15 of 1,125 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

12%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,110 St. Wendel residents head out of town to work, 15 work right here, and 171 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Wendel.

1,110live here, work elsewhere

15live and work here

171work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Wendel goes to work

St. Cloud10.2 mi away

33%369

Sartell5.5 mi away

7%79

Waite Park8.3 mi away

7%77

St. Joseph4.4 mi away

5%54

Sauk Rapids8.8 mi away

4%40

Brockway6.6 mi away

4%40

Minneapolis68.9 mi away

3%29

Little Falls25.1 mi away

2%18

Rice10.1 mi away

2%17

St. Stephen5.9 mi away

1%16

Everywhere elseother towns and states

34%386

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

How far

How far St. Wendel commutes

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

59%

16%

18%

59%Under 10 mi

16%10–24 mi

6%25–50 mi

18%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Wendel is a commuter town

0.17jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Wendel are

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

Jobs based in St. Wendel

186 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)31%

Trade, transport & utilities26%

Services (health, schools, offices…)42%

$1,250 a month or less25%

$1,251–$3,333 a month18%

Over $3,333 a month57%

Jobs St. Wendel residents hold

1,125 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)24%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)56%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month66%

+33%

Jobs based in St. Wendel, 2013 → 2023: 140 → 186. 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.