Work & commute · Gold Hill

Work & commute in Gold Hill, IL

Most working residents leave Gold Hill for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are Equality (8%), Shawneetown (6%) and Harrisburg (5%). Half commute less than 22 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

41 of 519 working residents

Typical commute

22 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

21 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 478 Gold Hill residents head out of town to work, 41 work right here, and 135 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Gold Hill.

478live here, work elsewhere

41live and work here

135work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Gold Hill goes to work

Equality5.6 mi away

8%43

Shawneetown1.7 mi away

6%30

Harrisburg18.6 mi away

5%28

Eldorado13.9 mi away

5%26

Black, IN21.7 mi away

5%25

Marion40.2 mi away

4%21

Evansville, IN40.6 mi away

3%13

Morganfield, KY18 mi away

3%13

Ridgway5.2 mi away

2%11

Springfield161.8 mi away

2%11

Everywhere elseother towns and states

57%298

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

How far

How far Gold Hill commutes

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

26%

28%

18%

29%

26%Under 10 mi

28%10–24 mi

18%25–50 mi

29%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Gold Hill is a commuter town

0.34jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Gold Hill are

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

Jobs based in Gold Hill

176 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)28%

Trade, transport & utilities29%

Services (health, schools, offices…)43%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month57%

Jobs Gold Hill residents hold

519 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)24%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)54%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month39%

Over $3,333 a month49%

−60%

Jobs based in Gold Hill, 2013 → 2023: 440 → 176. 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.