Work & commute · Dodds

Work & commute in Dodds, IL

Most working residents leave Dodds for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Mount Vernon (41%), Springfield (2%) and Marion (2%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

54 of 1,025 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

21 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 971 Dodds residents head out of town to work, 54 work right here, and 724 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Dodds.

971live here, work elsewhere

54live and work here

724work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Dodds goes to work

Mount Vernon4.6 mi away

41%418

Dodds (in town)right here

5%47

Springfield113.8 mi away

2%23

Marion36.1 mi away

2%21

Centralia22.7 mi away

2%20

Ina7.4 mi away

2%19

Nashville28.4 mi away

2%19

Salem26.1 mi away

1%14

Belleville62.8 mi away

1%13

Shiloh8.1 mi away

1%12

Everywhere elseother towns and states

41%419

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

How far

How far Dodds commutes

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

50%

15%

28%

50%Under 10 mi

7%10–24 mi

15%25–50 mi

28%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Dodds is balanced between jobs and homes

0.76jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.76 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Dodds are

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

Jobs based in Dodds

778 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)26%

Trade, transport & utilities29%

Services (health, schools, offices…)45%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month48%

Jobs Dodds residents hold

1,025 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)22%

Trade, transport & utilities26%

Services (health, schools, offices…)52%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month50%

−2%

Jobs based in Dodds, 2013 → 2023: 794 → 778. 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.