Work & commute · Bluffs

Work & commute in Bluffs, IL

Most working residents leave Bluffs for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are Springfield (14%), Jacksonville (14%) and Mount Sterling (8%). Half commute less than 20 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

22 of 283 working residents

Typical commute

20 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 261 Bluffs residents head out of town to work, 22 work right here, and 85 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Bluffs.

261live here, work elsewhere

22live and work here

85work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Bluffs goes to work

Springfield47.4 mi away

14%41

Jacksonville16.2 mi away

14%40

Mount Sterling20.4 mi away

8%24

Bluffs (in town)right here

8%22

Winchester9.3 mi away

6%16

Beardstown18.9 mi away

4%12

Pittsfield17.9 mi away

2%5

Collinsville79.2 mi away

2%5

St. Louis, MO78.5 mi away

1%4

Naples3.8 mi away

1%3

Everywhere elseother towns and states

39%111

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

How far

How far Bluffs commutes

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

23%

34%

16%

27%

23%Under 10 mi

34%10–24 mi

16%25–50 mi

27%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Bluffs is a commuter town

0.38jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Bluffs are

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

Jobs based in Bluffs

107 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities7%

Services (health, schools, offices…)88%

$1,250 a month or less23%

$1,251–$3,333 a month46%

Over $3,333 a month31%

Jobs Bluffs residents hold

283 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)54%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month54%

+11%

Jobs based in Bluffs, 2013 → 2023: 96 → 107. 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.