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Work & commute · Blue Mound

Work & commute in Blue Mound, IL

Most working residents leave Blue Mound for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Decatur (40%), Springfield (6%) and Chicago (3%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
1%
3 of 284 working residents
Typical commute
12 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
34 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
1%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 281 Blue Mound residents head out of town to work, 3 work right here, and 50 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Blue Mound.

281live here, work elsewhere
3live and work here
50work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Blue Mound goes to work

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1
Decatur10 mi away
40%115
2
Springfield29.6 mi away
6%18
3
Chicago160.4 mi away
3%9
4
Macon6.6 mi away
3%8
5
Blue Mound5.3 mi away
2%6
6
Peoria73.1 mi away
2%6
7
Pleasant View5.6 mi away
2%6
8
Whitmore16.4 mi away
2%6
9
Assumption17.8 mi away
1%4
10
Mount Zion10.8 mi away
1%4
Everywhere elseother towns and states
36%102

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

How far

How far Blue Mound commutes

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

43%Under 10 mi
21%10–24 mi
12%25–50 mi
25%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Blue Mound is a commuter town

0.19jobs per working resident
A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Blue Mound are

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

Jobs based in Blue Mound

53 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)8%
Trade, transport & utilities57%
Services (health, schools, offices…)36%
$1,250 a month or less15%
$1,251–$3,333 a month42%
Over $3,333 a month43%

Jobs Blue Mound residents hold

284 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)29%
Trade, transport & utilities15%
Services (health, schools, offices…)56%
$1,250 a month or less13%
$1,251–$3,333 a month29%
Over $3,333 a month58%
−25%

Jobs based in Blue Mound, 2013 → 2023: 71 → 53. 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.

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