Work & commute · Cartwright

Work & commute in Cartwright, IL

Most working residents leave Cartwright for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Springfield (49%), New Berlin (3%) and Jacksonville (3%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

23 of 622 working residents

Typical commute

16 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 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 599 Cartwright residents head out of town to work, 23 work right here, and 329 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Cartwright.

599live here, work elsewhere

23live and work here

329work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Cartwright goes to work

Springfield14.5 mi away

49%304

New Berlin7.9 mi away

3%20

Jacksonville18.8 mi away

3%18

Pleasant Plains2.4 mi away

3%17

Chicago180.4 mi away

3%16

Gardner7.3 mi away

2%11

Riverton19.8 mi away

2%10

Peoria64.8 mi away

2%10

Bloomington66.2 mi away

1%9

Champaign88.6 mi away

1%6

Everywhere elseother towns and states

32%201

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

How far

How far Cartwright commutes

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

10%

62%

24%

10%Under 10 mi

62%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

24%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Cartwright is a commuter town

0.57jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Cartwright are

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

Jobs based in Cartwright

352 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities30%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less22%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month47%

Jobs Cartwright residents hold

622 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)72%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month61%

+43%

Jobs based in Cartwright, 2013 → 2023: 246 → 352. 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.