Work & commute · Beach Park

Work & commute in Beach Park, IL

Most working residents leave Beach Park for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Waukegan (16%), Chicago (7%) and Gurnee (6%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

91 of 5,856 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

28 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

10%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 5,765 Beach Park residents head out of town to work, 91 work right here, and 839 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Beach Park.

5,765live here, work elsewhere

91live and work here

839work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Beach Park goes to work

Waukegan5 mi away

16%908

Chicago42.9 mi away

7%404

Gurnee5.9 mi away

6%373

North Chicago8.7 mi away

4%229

Zion1.7 mi away

4%222

Pleasant Prairie, WI5.9 mi away

4%214

Kenosha, WI10 mi away

3%193

Libertyville11.5 mi away

2%145

Mundelein13.7 mi away

2%142

Libertyville11.8 mi away

2%129

Everywhere elseother towns and states

49%2,897

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

How far

How far Beach Park commutes

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

41%

30%

21%

41%Under 10 mi

30%10–24 mi

21%25–50 mi

7%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Beach Park is a commuter town

0.16jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Beach Park are

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

Jobs based in Beach Park

930 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities12%

Services (health, schools, offices…)76%

$1,250 a month or less23%

$1,251–$3,333 a month39%

Over $3,333 a month39%

Jobs Beach Park residents hold

5,856 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month59%

+14%

Jobs based in Beach Park, 2013 → 2023: 816 → 930. 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.