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Work & commute · Girard

Work & commute in Girard, IL

Most working residents leave Girard for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are Springfield (26%), Virden (6%) and Carlinville (5%). Half commute less than 25 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
8%
58 of 741 working residents
Typical commute
25 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
25 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
13%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 683 Girard residents head out of town to work, 58 work right here, and 335 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Girard.

683live here, work elsewhere
58live and work here
335work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Girard goes to work

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1
Springfield24.9 mi away
26%194
2
Girard (in town)right here
8%58
3
Virden4.2 mi away
6%41
4
Carlinville12.7 mi away
5%38
5
Auburn8.4 mi away
2%15
6
Auburn9.2 mi away
2%13
7
Chatham16.4 mi away
2%13
8
Chicago198.4 mi away
2%13
9
Litchfield19.7 mi away
2%12
10
Jacksonville30.9 mi away
2%12
Everywhere elseother towns and states
45%332

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

How far

How far Girard commutes

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

19%Under 10 mi
31%10–24 mi
24%25–50 mi
26%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Girard is a commuter town

0.53jobs per working resident
A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Girard are

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

Jobs based in Girard

393 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)5%
Trade, transport & utilities19%
Services (health, schools, offices…)76%
$1,250 a month or less18%
$1,251–$3,333 a month40%
Over $3,333 a month42%

Jobs Girard residents hold

741 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)17%
Trade, transport & utilities25%
Services (health, schools, offices…)58%
$1,250 a month or less15%
$1,251–$3,333 a month32%
Over $3,333 a month53%
−20%

Jobs based in Girard, 2013 → 2023: 493 → 393. 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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