Work & commute · Carlyle

Work & commute in Carlyle, IL

Most working residents leave Carlyle for work: only 16% work in town. The top destinations are Breese (9%), Centralia (5%) and Belleville (4%). Half commute less than 18 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

16%

210 of 1,320 working residents

Typical commute

18 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

12%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,110 Carlyle residents head out of town to work, 210 work right here, and 1,430 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Carlyle.

1,110live here, work elsewhere

210live and work here

1,430work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Carlyle goes to work

Carlyle (in town)right here

16%210

Breese8 mi away

9%116

Centralia15.3 mi away

5%71

Belleville34.1 mi away

4%51

Nashville19.2 mi away

4%50

Highland19.6 mi away

4%49

St. Louis, MO46.9 mi away

3%34

Greenville18.3 mi away

2%25

Chicago239.3 mi away

2%22

Springfield82 mi away

2%20

Everywhere elseother towns and states

51%672

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

How far

How far Carlyle commutes

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

30%

28%

21%

30%Under 10 mi

28%10–24 mi

21%25–50 mi

21%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Carlyle is balanced between jobs and homes

1.24jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.24 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Carlyle are

1,640 jobs are based in Carlyle. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Carlyle’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Carlyle

1,640 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)7%

Trade, transport & utilities28%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month41%

Over $3,333 a month39%

Jobs Carlyle residents hold

1,320 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month57%

+6%

Jobs based in Carlyle, 2013 → 2023: 1,542 → 1,640. 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.