Work & commute · Carbon Cliff

Work & commute in Carbon Cliff, IL

Most working residents leave Carbon Cliff for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Moline (14%), East Moline (13%) and Davenport (13%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

17 of 781 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

19 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 764 Carbon Cliff residents head out of town to work, 17 work right here, and 822 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Carbon Cliff.

764live here, work elsewhere

17live and work here

822work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Carbon Cliff goes to work

Moline5.4 mi away

14%111

East Moline1.5 mi away

13%103

Davenport, IA11.7 mi away

13%99

Rock Island10.2 mi away

6%48

Silvis1 mi away

5%37

Joslin9.4 mi away

4%33

Chicago141.7 mi away

3%24

Milan9.8 mi away

3%20

Bettendorf, IA6.5 mi away

3%20

Riverdale, IA4.6 mi away

2%18

Everywhere elseother towns and states

34%268

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

How far

How far Carbon Cliff commutes

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

56%

18%

23%

56%Under 10 mi

18%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

23%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Carbon Cliff is balanced between jobs and homes

1.07jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.07 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Carbon Cliff are

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

Jobs based in Carbon Cliff

839 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities5%

Services (health, schools, offices…)87%

$1,250 a month or less26%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month41%

Jobs Carbon Cliff residents hold

781 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)25%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month56%

−30%

Jobs based in Carbon Cliff, 2013 → 2023: 1,203 → 839. 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.