Work & commute · St. Croix Falls

Work & commute in St. Croix Falls, WI

Most working residents leave St. Croix Falls for work: only 15% work in town. The top destinations are Osceola (9%), Dresser (3%) and Minneapolis (3%). Half commute less than 23 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

15%

163 of 1,081 working residents

Typical commute

23 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

32 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 918 St. Croix Falls residents head out of town to work, 163 work right here, and 2,292 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Croix Falls.

918live here, work elsewhere

163live and work here

2,292work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Croix Falls goes to work

St. Croix Falls (in town)right here

15%163

Osceola7.2 mi away

9%96

Dresser3.4 mi away

3%37

Minneapolis, MN44.1 mi away

3%35

St. Croix Falls2.6 mi away

3%28

St. Paul, MN39.6 mi away

2%27

Eau Claire68.6 mi away

2%22

Amery14.7 mi away

2%19

New Richmond20.1 mi away

1%16

Forest Lake, MN20 mi away

1%15

Everywhere elseother towns and states

58%623

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

How far

How far St. Croix Falls commutes

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

37%

14%

27%

22%

37%Under 10 mi

14%10–24 mi

27%25–50 mi

22%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Croix Falls is a job hub

2.27jobs per working resident

A job hub

2.3 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Croix Falls are

2,455 jobs are based in St. Croix Falls. Here is what they are, next to the jobs St. Croix Falls’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in St. Croix Falls

2,455 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities27%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less22%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month46%

Jobs St. Croix Falls residents hold

1,081 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)29%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)51%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month56%

+11%

Jobs based in St. Croix Falls, 2013 → 2023: 2,216 → 2,455. 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.