Work & commute · Burnt Prairie

Work & commute in Burnt Prairie, IL

Most working residents leave Burnt Prairie for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Carmi (24%), Evansville (7%) and Patoka (5%). Half commute less than 25 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

1 of 113 working residents

Typical commute

25 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

18 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 112 Burnt Prairie residents head out of town to work, 1 work right here, and 125 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Burnt Prairie.

112live here, work elsewhere

1live and work here

125work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Burnt Prairie goes to work

Carmi7.8 mi away

24%27

Evansville, IN39.1 mi away

7%8

Patoka, IN35 mi away

5%6

Albion14.8 mi away

4%4

Grayville12 mi away

4%4

Fairfield15.7 mi away

3%3

Mount Carmel28.1 mi away

3%3

Effingham66.6 mi away

3%3

Mount Vernon39.6 mi away

3%3

Hawthorne10.4 mi away

3%3

Everywhere elseother towns and states

43%49

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

How far

How far Burnt Prairie commutes

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

23%

28%

29%

19%

23%Under 10 mi

28%10–24 mi

29%25–50 mi

19%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Burnt Prairie is balanced between jobs and homes

1.12jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.12 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Burnt Prairie are

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

Jobs based in Burnt Prairie

126 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)6%

Trade, transport & utilities58%

Services (health, schools, offices…)36%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month63%

Jobs Burnt Prairie residents hold

113 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)25%

Trade, transport & utilities27%

Services (health, schools, offices…)48%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month54%

+869%

Jobs based in Burnt Prairie, 2013 → 2023: 13 → 126. 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.