Work & commute · Albers

Work & commute in Albers, IL

Most working residents leave Albers for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are St. Louis (8%), Belleville (6%) and New Baden (5%). Half commute less than 20 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

10 of 474 working residents

Typical commute

20 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

30 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

11%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 464 Albers residents head out of town to work, 10 work right here, and 230 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Albers.

464live here, work elsewhere

10live and work here

230work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Albers goes to work

St. Louis, MO34.5 mi away

8%36

Belleville20.3 mi away

6%27

New Baden4.9 mi away

5%25

Breese7 mi away

4%20

Damiansville2.4 mi away

3%16

Highland16.1 mi away

3%16

Sugar Creek5.2 mi away

3%15

Mascoutah10 mi away

3%12

Trenton5.8 mi away

2%11

O'Fallon16.6 mi away

2%11

Everywhere elseother towns and states

60%285

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

How far

How far Albers commutes

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

30%

31%

25%

14%

30%Under 10 mi

31%10–24 mi

25%25–50 mi

14%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Albers is a commuter town

0.51jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Albers are

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

Jobs based in Albers

240 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities43%

Services (health, schools, offices…)34%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month50%

Jobs Albers residents hold

474 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 month19%

Over $3,333 a month67%

+9%

Jobs based in Albers, 2013 → 2023: 221 → 240. 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.