Work & commute · Aux Sable

Work & commute in Aux Sable, IL

Most working residents leave Aux Sable for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Joliet (10%), Chicago (10%) and Minooka (8%). Half commute less than 23 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

710 of 7,778 working residents

Typical commute

23 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

31 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

12%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 7,068 Aux Sable residents head out of town to work, 710 work right here, and 5,758 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Aux Sable.

7,068live here, work elsewhere

710live and work here

5,758work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Aux Sable goes to work

Joliet10.4 mi away

10%805

Chicago42.9 mi away

10%771

Minooka2.3 mi away

8%602

Channahon2.2 mi away

4%325

Morris6.9 mi away

4%305

Naperville23.6 mi away

3%231

Bolingbrook20.8 mi away

3%212

Plainfield14.1 mi away

2%180

Aurora23.4 mi away

2%166

New Lenox18.3 mi away

2%157

Everywhere elseother towns and states

52%4,024

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

How far

How far Aux Sable commutes

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

26%

28%

38%

26%Under 10 mi

28%10–24 mi

38%25–50 mi

8%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Aux Sable is balanced between jobs and homes

0.83jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.83 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Aux Sable are

6,468 jobs are based in Aux Sable. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Aux Sable’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Aux Sable

6,468 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities49%

Services (health, schools, offices…)35%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month67%

Jobs Aux Sable residents hold

7,778 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities28%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month64%

+73%

Jobs based in Aux Sable, 2013 → 2023: 3,745 → 6,468. 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.