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Work & commute · Garden Plain

Work & commute in Garden Plain, IL

Most working residents leave Garden Plain for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Clinton (21%), Fulton (10%) and Morrison (5%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
1%
6 of 446 working residents
Typical commute
11 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
16 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
6%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 440 Garden Plain residents head out of town to work, 6 work right here, and 62 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Garden Plain.

440live here, work elsewhere
6live and work here
62work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Garden Plain goes to work

AlbanyErieFultonMorrisonSterlingEast MolineChicagoCamancheBettendorfClintonDavenportFultonGarden PlainNewtonCordovaUnion GroveAlbanyClintonFultonMorrisonDavenportCordovaCamancheSterlingBettendorfFultonEast MolineGarden Plain
1
Clinton, IA6.4 mi away
21%93
2
Fulton5.2 mi away
10%46
3
Morrison9.2 mi away
5%23
4
Davenport, IA29 mi away
5%21
5
Cordova9.1 mi away
5%21
6
Camanche, IA7.1 mi away
3%14
7
Sterling22.8 mi away
3%13
8
Bettendorf, IA23.3 mi away
2%11
9
Fulton6.1 mi away
2%9
10
East Moline22.7 mi away
2%7
Everywhere elseother towns and states
42%188

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

How far

How far Garden Plain commutes

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

49%Under 10 mi
17%10–24 mi
17%25–50 mi
18%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Garden Plain is a commuter town

0.15jobs per working resident
A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Garden Plain are

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

Jobs based in Garden Plain

68 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)54%
Trade, transport & utilities38%
Services (health, schools, offices…)7%
$1,250 a month or less12%
$1,251–$3,333 a month34%
Over $3,333 a month54%

Jobs Garden Plain residents hold

446 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)28%
Trade, transport & utilities20%
Services (health, schools, offices…)52%
$1,250 a month or less13%
$1,251–$3,333 a month26%
Over $3,333 a month61%
−28%

Jobs based in Garden Plain, 2013 → 2023: 95 → 68. 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.

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