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Work & commute · St. Paul

Work & commute in St. Paul, MO

Most working residents leave St. Paul for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are O'Fallon (15%), St. Charles (7%) and St. Peters (6%). Half commute less than 17 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
1%
18 of 1,753 working residents
Typical commute
17 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
24 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
14%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,735 St. Paul residents head out of town to work, 18 work right here, and 334 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Paul.

1,735live here, work elsewhere
18live and work here
334work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where St. Paul goes to work

BerkeleyWright CitySt. PaulTroyWarrentonLake St. LouisCreve CoeurFlorissantBridgetonSt. CharlesSt. PetersMaryland HeightsWentzvilleO'FallonChesterfieldSt. LouisO'FallonSt. CharlesSt. PetersWentzvilleMaryland HeightsSt. LouisBerkeleyChesterfieldCreve CoeurBridgetonSt. Paul
1
O'Fallon4.9 mi away
15%259
2
St. Charles12.7 mi away
7%118
3
St. Peters8.7 mi away
6%113
4
Wentzville7.2 mi away
6%107
5
Maryland Heights17.1 mi away
6%103
6
St. Louis30.5 mi away
6%99
7
Berkeley22.9 mi away
4%71
8
Chesterfield15.7 mi away
3%61
9
Creve Coeur20.6 mi away
3%56
10
Bridgeton18.2 mi away
3%47
Everywhere elseother towns and states
41%719

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

How far

How far St. Paul commutes

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

33%Under 10 mi
44%10–24 mi
15%25–50 mi
8%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

St. Paul is a commuter town

0.20jobs per working resident
A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Paul are

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

Jobs based in St. Paul

352 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)62%
Trade, transport & utilities8%
Services (health, schools, offices…)30%
$1,250 a month or less11%
$1,251–$3,333 a month24%
Over $3,333 a month66%

Jobs St. Paul residents hold

1,753 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)20%
Trade, transport & utilities20%
Services (health, schools, offices…)60%
$1,250 a month or less14%
$1,251–$3,333 a month18%
Over $3,333 a month68%
+5%

Jobs based in St. Paul, 2013 → 2023: 335 → 352. 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.

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