Work & commute · Ball

Work & commute in Ball, IL

Most working residents leave Ball for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Springfield (59%), Chatham (4%) and Chicago (2%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

47 of 3,387 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

27 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

15%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 3,340 Ball residents head out of town to work, 47 work right here, and 427 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Ball.

3,340live here, work elsewhere

47live and work here

427work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Ball goes to work

Springfield9.1 mi away

59%2,005

Chatham2.9 mi away

4%134

Chicago182 mi away

2%81

Bloomington66.7 mi away

2%58

Decatur40 mi away

2%52

Woodside5.1 mi away

1%36

Normal68.7 mi away

1%34

Peoria75.5 mi away

1%32

Carbondale135.7 mi away

1%30

Riverton14.1 mi away

1%28

Everywhere elseother towns and states

26%897

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

How far

How far Ball commutes

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

60%

12%

23%

60%Under 10 mi

12%10–24 mi

5%25–50 mi

23%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Ball is a commuter town

0.14jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Ball are

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

Jobs based in Ball

474 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities10%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less22%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month43%

Jobs Ball residents hold

3,387 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)76%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month66%

−9%

Jobs based in Ball, 2013 → 2023: 523 → 474. 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.