Work & commute · Button

Work & commute in Button, IL

Most working residents leave Button for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Paxton (14%), Gibson City (12%) and Champaign (9%). Half commute less than 23 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

2 of 106 working residents

Typical commute

23 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

— 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 104 Button residents head out of town to work, 2 work right here, and 32 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Button.

104live here, work elsewhere

2live and work here

32work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Button goes to work

Paxton5.8 mi away

14%15

Gibson City20.3 mi away

12%13

Champaign27.5 mi away

9%10

Rantoul13.3 mi away

8%8

Urbana25.8 mi away

6%6

Bloomington51.4 mi away

3%3

Lyman15.9 mi away

3%3

Danville29.3 mi away

2%2

Kankakee45.6 mi away

2%2

Normal52.7 mi away

2%2

Everywhere elseother towns and states

40%42

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

How far

How far Button commutes

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

19%

37%

21%

24%

19%Under 10 mi

37%10–24 mi

21%25–50 mi

24%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Button is a commuter town

0.32jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Button are

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

Jobs based in Button

34 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)35%

Trade, transport & utilities50%

Services (health, schools, offices…)15%

$1,250 a month or less6%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month74%

Jobs Button residents hold

106 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)25%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)55%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month60%

+467%

Jobs based in Button, 2013 → 2023: 6 → 34. 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.