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Work & commute · Good Hope

Work & commute in Good Hope, IL

Most working residents leave Good Hope for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Macomb (34%), Colchester (7%) and Carthage (4%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
1%
1 of 133 working residents
Typical commute
11 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
18 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
4%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 132 Good Hope residents head out of town to work, 1 work right here, and 17 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Good Hope.

132live here, work elsewhere
1live and work here
17work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Good Hope goes to work

SciotaGood HopeBardolphBlandinsvilleColchesterLa HarpeBushnellAledoCarthageForsythMonmouthChathamMacombQuincyBlandinsvilleMoundMontebelloEldoradoMacombColchesterCarthageBushnellQuincyBlandinsvilleLa HarpeAledoForsythMonmouthGood Hope
1
Macomb6 mi away
34%45
2
Colchester11 mi away
7%9
3
Carthage25.8 mi away
4%5
4
Bushnell9 mi away
3%4
5
Quincy56.9 mi away
3%4
6
Blandinsville10.1 mi away
2%2
7
La Harpe15.6 mi away
2%2
8
Aledo44.5 mi away
2%2
9
Forsyth100.2 mi away
2%2
10
Monmouth24.7 mi away
2%2
Everywhere elseother towns and states
42%56

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

How far

How far Good Hope commutes

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

43%Under 10 mi
14%10–24 mi
20%25–50 mi
24%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Good Hope is a commuter town

0.14jobs per working resident
A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Good Hope are

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

Jobs based in Good Hope

18 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)72%
Trade, transport & utilities6%
Services (health, schools, offices…)22%
$1,250 a month or less28%
$1,251–$3,333 a month11%
Over $3,333 a month61%

Jobs Good Hope residents hold

133 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)23%
Trade, transport & utilities28%
Services (health, schools, offices…)49%
$1,250 a month or less12%
$1,251–$3,333 a month24%
Over $3,333 a month64%
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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