Work & commute · Vadnais Heights

Work & commute in Vadnais Heights, MN

Most working residents leave Vadnais Heights for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are St. Paul (17%), Minneapolis (13%) and Roseville (4%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

302 of 5,939 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

23%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 5,637 Vadnais Heights residents head out of town to work, 302 work right here, and 8,554 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Vadnais Heights.

5,637live here, work elsewhere

302live and work here

8,554work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Vadnais Heights goes to work

St. Paul7.8 mi away

17%1,013

Minneapolis11.8 mi away

13%784

Vadnais Heights (in town)right here

5%302

Roseville5.2 mi away

4%265

White Bear Lake2.7 mi away

4%255

Edina18.4 mi away

3%183

Maplewood3.2 mi away

3%151

Arden Hills4.9 mi away

2%139

Bloomington19.9 mi away

2%137

Shoreview4 mi away

2%129

Everywhere elseother towns and states

43%2,581

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

How far

How far Vadnais Heights commutes

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

55%

39%

55%Under 10 mi

39%10–24 mi

2%25–50 mi

4%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Vadnais Heights is balanced between jobs and homes

1.49jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.49 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Vadnais Heights are

8,856 jobs are based in Vadnais Heights. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Vadnais Heights’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Vadnais Heights

8,856 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)33%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)43%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month67%

Jobs Vadnais Heights residents hold

5,939 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month18%

Over $3,333 a month70%

+13%

Jobs based in Vadnais Heights, 2013 → 2023: 7,834 → 8,856. 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.