Work & commute · Chouteau

Work & commute in Chouteau, IL

Most working residents leave Chouteau for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Granite City (12%), St. Louis (10%) and Edwardsville (9%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

285 of 3,096 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

24 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 2,811 Chouteau residents head out of town to work, 285 work right here, and 11,068 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Chouteau.

2,811live here, work elsewhere

285live and work here

11,068work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Chouteau goes to work

Granite City4.4 mi away

12%378

St. Louis, MO13.3 mi away

10%296

Edwardsville5.7 mi away

9%291

Alton8.6 mi away

5%143

Pontoon Beach5.2 mi away

3%85

Collinsville8.9 mi away

3%84

Wood River5.3 mi away

2%65

Chicago245.9 mi away

2%65

East Alton6.7 mi away

2%59

Roxana3.5 mi away

2%58

Everywhere elseother towns and states

51%1,572

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

How far

How far Chouteau commutes

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

44%

36%

16%

44%Under 10 mi

36%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

16%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Chouteau is a job hub

3.67jobs per working resident

A job hub

3.7 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Chouteau are

11,353 jobs are based in Chouteau. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Chouteau’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Chouteau

11,353 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities68%

Services (health, schools, offices…)19%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month59%

Jobs Chouteau residents hold

3,096 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities27%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month54%

+74%

Jobs based in Chouteau, 2013 → 2023: 6,529 → 11,353. 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.