Work & commute · Fairview Heights

Work & commute in Fairview Heights, IL

Most working residents leave Fairview Heights for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are St. Louis (13%), Belleville (11%) and O'Fallon (6%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

624 of 7,236 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 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 6,612 Fairview Heights residents head out of town to work, 624 work right here, and 9,427 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Fairview Heights.

6,612live here, work elsewhere

624live and work here

9,427work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Fairview Heights goes to work

St. Louis, MO13.2 mi away

13%939

Belleville5.6 mi away

11%765

Fairview Heights (in town)right here

9%624

O'Fallon4.9 mi away

6%449

Edwardsville13.5 mi away

3%234

Collinsville5.7 mi away

3%229

East St. Louis6.9 mi away

2%178

Swansea3.2 mi away

2%171

Granite City11.3 mi away

2%165

Chicago255.2 mi away

2%140

Everywhere elseother towns and states

46%3,342

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

How far

How far Fairview Heights commutes

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

43%

36%

15%

43%Under 10 mi

36%10–24 mi

6%25–50 mi

15%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Fairview Heights is balanced between jobs and homes

1.39jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.39 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Fairview Heights are

10,051 jobs are based in Fairview Heights. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Fairview Heights’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Fairview Heights

10,051 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)4%

Trade, transport & utilities30%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less29%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month36%

Jobs Fairview Heights residents hold

7,236 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month56%

−5%

Jobs based in Fairview Heights, 2013 → 2023: 10,529 → 10,051. 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.