Work & commute · Cahokia Heights

Work & commute in Cahokia Heights, IL

Most working residents leave Cahokia Heights for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are St. Louis (13%), Belleville (7%) and East St. Louis (4%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

519 of 6,363 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 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 5,844 Cahokia Heights residents head out of town to work, 519 work right here, and 3,645 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Cahokia Heights.

5,844live here, work elsewhere

519live and work here

3,645work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Cahokia Heights goes to work

St. Louis, MO6.5 mi away

13%844

Cahokia Heights (in town)right here

8%519

Belleville9.7 mi away

7%421

East St. Louis3.3 mi away

4%257

Sauget0.9 mi away

4%253

Fairview Heights8.3 mi away

4%232

Edwardsville17.6 mi away

3%194

Granite City11 mi away

3%187

Chicago260.5 mi away

2%133

O'Fallon13.1 mi away

2%125

Everywhere elseother towns and states

50%3,198

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

How far

How far Cahokia Heights commutes

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

46%

33%

17%

46%Under 10 mi

33%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

17%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Cahokia Heights is a commuter town

0.65jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Cahokia Heights are

4,164 jobs are based in Cahokia Heights. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Cahokia Heights’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Cahokia Heights

4,164 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities39%

Services (health, schools, offices…)51%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month65%

Jobs Cahokia Heights residents hold

6,363 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month39%

Over $3,333 a month42%

−12%

Jobs based in Cahokia Heights, 2013 → 2023: 4,715 → 4,164. 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.