Work & commute · St. Peters

Work & commute in St. Peters, MO

Most working residents leave St. Peters for work: only 10% work in town. The top destinations are St. Louis (8%), St. Charles (8%) and O'Fallon (8%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

10%

2,895 of 29,466 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

17%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 26,571 St. Peters residents head out of town to work, 2,895 work right here, and 29,798 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Peters.

26,571live here, work elsewhere

2,895live and work here

29,798work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Peters goes to work

St. Peters (in town)right here

10%2,895

St. Louis21.9 mi away

8%2,399

St. Charles4.9 mi away

8%2,333

O'Fallon6.3 mi away

8%2,263

Maryland Heights8.4 mi away

6%1,740

Chesterfield8.6 mi away

5%1,553

Creve Coeur12 mi away

4%1,139

Berkeley14.7 mi away

4%1,052

Clayton17.6 mi away

3%773

Bridgeton10.1 mi away

3%739

Everywhere elseother towns and states

43%12,580

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

How far

How far St. Peters commutes

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

43%

47%

43%Under 10 mi

47%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

7%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Peters is balanced between jobs and homes

1.11jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.11 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Peters are

32,693 jobs are based in St. Peters. Here is what they are, next to the jobs St. Peters’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in St. Peters

32,693 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities37%

Services (health, schools, offices…)52%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month50%

Jobs St. Peters residents hold

29,466 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month66%

+27%

Jobs based in St. Peters, 2013 → 2023: 25,706 → 32,693. 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.