Work & commute · Fox Lake Hills

Work & commute in Fox Lake Hills, IL

Most working residents leave Fox Lake Hills for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Chicago (10%), Waukegan (4%) and Libertyville (4%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

11 of 1,191 working residents

Typical commute

16 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

34 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

16%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,180 Fox Lake Hills residents head out of town to work, 11 work right here, and 112 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Fox Lake Hills.

1,180live here, work elsewhere

11live and work here

112work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Fox Lake Hills goes to work

Chicago45.7 mi away

10%123

Waukegan13.5 mi away

4%52

Libertyville12 mi away

4%51

Gurnee10.2 mi away

3%39

Lake Villa2.4 mi away

3%38

Grayslake6.9 mi away

3%38

Mundelein11.1 mi away

2%27

Fox Lake3.1 mi away

2%26

Deerfield22.1 mi away

2%24

Round Lake Beach3.2 mi away

2%21

Everywhere elseother towns and states

63%752

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

How far

How far Fox Lake Hills commutes

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

26%

40%

29%

26%Under 10 mi

40%10–24 mi

29%25–50 mi

6%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Fox Lake Hills is a commuter town

0.10jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Fox Lake Hills are

123 jobs are based in Fox Lake Hills. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Fox Lake Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Fox Lake Hills

123 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities2%

Services (health, schools, offices…)82%

$1,250 a month or less36%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month40%

Jobs Fox Lake Hills residents hold

1,191 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month67%

−4%

Jobs based in Fox Lake Hills, 2013 → 2023: 128 → 123. 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.