Work & commute · Fayetteville

Work & commute in Fayetteville, IL

Most working residents leave Fayetteville for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Belleville (6%), Mascoutah (5%) and Marissa (5%). Half commute less than 20 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

21 of 635 working residents

Typical commute

20 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

30 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 614 Fayetteville residents head out of town to work, 21 work right here, and 236 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Fayetteville.

614live here, work elsewhere

21live and work here

236work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Fayetteville goes to work

Belleville16.6 mi away

6%40

Mascoutah11.2 mi away

5%32

Marissa7.4 mi away

5%30

St. Louis, MO32.5 mi away

4%25

Sparta15.3 mi away

3%21

O'Fallon18.7 mi away

3%16

Red Bud16.9 mi away

2%15

Freeburg10.2 mi away

2%15

Chicago264.1 mi away

2%14

Lively Grove9 mi away

2%14

Everywhere elseother towns and states

65%413

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

How far

How far Fayetteville commutes

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

19%

40%

25%

15%

19%Under 10 mi

40%10–24 mi

25%25–50 mi

15%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Fayetteville is a commuter town

0.40jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Fayetteville are

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

Jobs based in Fayetteville

257 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)24%

Trade, transport & utilities36%

Services (health, schools, offices…)40%

$1,250 a month or less25%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month41%

Jobs Fayetteville residents hold

635 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)55%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month59%

+98%

Jobs based in Fayetteville, 2013 → 2023: 130 → 257. 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.