Work & commute · Glendale Heights

Work & commute in Glendale Heights, IL

Most working residents leave Glendale Heights for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Chicago (14%), Carol Stream (6%) and Addison (4%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

810 of 16,013 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

27 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

11%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 15,203 Glendale Heights residents head out of town to work, 810 work right here, and 9,503 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Glendale Heights.

15,203live here, work elsewhere

810live and work here

9,503work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Glendale Heights goes to work

Chicago21 mi away

14%2,298

Carol Stream2.8 mi away

6%962

Glendale Heights (in town)right here

5%810

Addison3.6 mi away

4%601

Schaumburg7.6 mi away

4%583

Bloomingdale2.3 mi away

3%473

Elk Grove Village7.4 mi away

3%463

Naperville12.5 mi away

3%425

Lombard4.5 mi away

2%335

Elmhurst7.1 mi away

2%304

Everywhere elseother towns and states

55%8,759

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

How far

How far Glendale Heights commutes

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

50%

43%

50%Under 10 mi

43%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

4%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Glendale Heights is a commuter town

0.64jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Glendale Heights are

10,313 jobs are based in Glendale Heights. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Glendale Heights’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Glendale Heights

10,313 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)36%

Trade, transport & utilities36%

Services (health, schools, offices…)28%

$1,250 a month or less9%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month67%

Jobs Glendale Heights residents hold

16,013 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities26%

Services (health, schools, offices…)55%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month63%

−8%

Jobs based in Glendale Heights, 2013 → 2023: 11,230 → 10,313. 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.